InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Geophysics, Climatology and Meteorology Agency (GCMA) conducted Climate and Air Quality Fair 2024 to socialize the latest information about air quality and encourage multiparty collaboration to face the climate change and air quality. It was on Tuesday, 15 October 2024 at the auditorium of GCMA, Jakarta, by the Secretary of GCMA Dwi Budi Sutrisno and Deputy in Climatology, GCMA, Ardhasena Sopaheluwakan.
One main focus of the fair was about to socialize air quality information service of GCMA, including extreme air quality early warning system that the public should access through the official page of GCMA. The service should be the reference for every stakeholder to get mitigation and adaptation about the climate change.
“Climate and Air Quality Fair 2024 would be the significant thing to encourage the collaboration among many sectors to get solution on climate change and air quality. The collaboration should positively deliver impacts to sustainable development and the people’s welfare,” Ardhasena said in the official statement, as InfoSAWIT quoted, Wednesday (16/10/2024).
He also emphasized that the air quality would have something to do with the climate change. The climate change itself would potentially decrease the air quality and would be negative to many sectors, such as, health, economy, and the environment. “The bad air quality would be negative. It needs to manage integrated air quality with the climate actions,” he said.
The initiative would be the same with the sustainable development goals (SDGs) particularly the 3rd target that focused on the health, welfare, and the 13th target that focused on climate change action. The bad air quality would deliver direct impacts not only for the man’s health but also make the climate change worse.
GCMA through Climatology Deputy provided more than 14 integrated climate information services that were designed to fulfill many sectors’ needs. The monitoring of air quality by GCMA would cover the particle concentration in the vulnerable fire forests and reas, and monitoring green-house gas emission in some locations, such as, Bukit Kototabang, Lore Lindu Bariri, and Sorong.
By the event, GCMA did hope to reinforce the multiparty collaboration both in national and international scale to get more environmental developments and maintain the air quality and people’ health when the climate change challenges got more complex. (T2)