Banda Aceh, Aceh Province (ANTARA News) - Preparations for the holding of a Governors Climate and Forestry (GCF) Task Force-3 meeting in Aceh from May 17-22, 2010 are almost completed, a local official said.

"Preparations for the international meeting are almost completed. We are now waiting for confirmation from a number of foreign delegations we have invited to the event," GCF Task Force-3 committee chairman Husaini Syamaun said here on Friday.

He said the GCF Task Force-3 meeting was a continuation of the GCF Task Force-2 gathering in the United States city of Los Angeles, California on September 30 last year.

One of the recommendations of the GCF Task Force-2 meeting in Los Angeles was about the continuation of cooperation to ensure a tangible result in the context of overcoming climate change through the forestry sector.

Syamaun said some delegations from the US states of California, Illinois, and Wisconsin as the GCF permanent team had confirmed their participation at GCF Task Force-3 in Aceh.

In addition, delegations from the Brazilian states of Amazon, Mato Grosso, Para, Acre, as well as Mexico and Liberia had also confirmed their participation.
While the permanent teams from Indonesia to attend the event in Aceh are from Papua and East Kalimantan.

Besides the permanent team, delegations from several countries such as Malaysia and Nigeria will also be present as observers.

According to Husaini Syamaun, the meeting in Aceh was expected to yield a number of commitments that would encourage related parties to bind the result of the Kyoto Protocol.

The Kyoto Protocol was an amendment of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), an international environmental treaty on global warming.

The objective of the treaty is to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.

Meanwhile, Aceh Task Force Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) organizing committee spokesman Fadmi Ridwan said GCF Task Force-3 was expected to produce a protocol.

"One of our reasons to invite developed countries is that they are expected to make a breakthrough in supporting the efforts to reduce global warming in the climate change issue," Fadmi said.
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