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Indonesia calls on fellow G20 states to push 'environmental multilateralism'

Efforts to counter climate change must be built into plans for a global economic recovery from the pandemic, Indonesia's environment chief said in urging countries in the G20 to promote "environmental multilateralism".

Indonesia holds the 2022 presidency of the grouping, which brings together the 20 major developed and developing economies.

Indonesian Environment Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar, who chaired the Joint Environment and Climate Ministers' Meeting held on Wednesday, said environmental multilateralism "is the only mechanism where all countries, regardless of their size and wealth, stand on equal footing and equal treatment".