Jakarta: The first World Delta Summit will be organized in Indonesia on Nov 21-24, 2011, according to Secretary of the Coordinating Ministry for People`s Welfare Indroyono Soesilo.
The summit would be the first world`s event combining science, policy and practice elements, Indroyono said here on Thursday.
He said the results of the World Delta Summit would be presented in the Climate Change Summit to be held in South Africa this year. The delta summit, which will be organized by the Indonesian Institute of Sciences and Delta Alliance’s Indonesia Wing, is a follow up of the Deltas in Time of Climate Change Conference, which was held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, September 28-October 1, 2011.
“In the conference, Indonesia was given a trust to host the World Delta Summit 2011,” he said. The Delta Summit`s participants are expected to share a common but differentiated responsibility on securing the deltas functionality for our survivability, call for an immediate action plan with long term shared vision, produce acceptable and robust worldwide policies, and address the challenges and create new opportunities as well while reducing the disaster risks and properly alleviating the poverty under the changing climate.
Deltas and coastal lowlands are the most prolific of regions, because of their rich environmental resources and strong economic potential.
They are hubs of innovation, biodiversity, industrial and agricultural productivity, and home to the fastest growing cities in the world. Great ancient and current civilizations begin in deltas. (PTI)
