Help reduce emissions

The problem are certainly very serious, and urgent action is clearly required. However the situation is far from hopeless and there are real workable solutions.
Government policies both at home and abroad will play a critical role in the realization of remedies, but there is much individual can do to help reduce the risks of irreversible damage from climate change.
We all need to take stock of our own Carbon Footprint - the measure of the impact human activities have on the environment in terms of the amount of green house gases produced, measured in units of carbon dioxide.
An average Indonesian creates nearly 1.7 tons of CO2 every year. a figure which, by the way, is dwarfed by the enormous 20 tons generated by an average American.

Now, imagine every citizen of Indonesia was able to reduce their Carbon Footprint by, say, 5 percent in a year. With a population of 240000million, that would represent a reduction in CO2 emissions of 240000 tons. That's more than the total amount of CO2 emitted by Timor-Leste in a whole year.