Moerdijat, in a written statement issued on Monday, said that several sectors could be potentially affected by rising temperatures: environment, food, health, and economy.
Earlier, the Network of Climate Change and Forestry Experts (APIK) Indonesia reminded stakeholders in the country to get ready for the Earth's temperature rising beyond the 1.5 degrees Celsius threshold due to climate change.
According to APIK, climate change will result in an increase in the occurrence of hydrometeorological disasters, reduce food output, increase the incidence of infectious diseases, affect people's mental health, as well as cause damage to economic infrastructure due to floods and landslides.
The MPR deputy speaker urged policymakers in Indonesia to seriously prepare the adaptation steps that are needed in the face of those threats.
She emphasized that the threats must be handled with good preparation to prevent them from significantly disrupting the development that is currently being witnessed in the country.
In particular, she underlined the issue of food productivity that could decline due to an increase in the global temperature. She said that the issue could potentially disrupt efforts to improve health quality and the national economy.
To this end, she continued, policymakers and the public must immediately increase adaptation efforts to respond to the expected impacts of climate change.
She also expressed the hope that policymakers at the central and regional levels would move jointly with the community to realize several efforts so that everyone can face the challenges brought on by climate change.
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