Climate change issue draws the international attention. The biggest contributor in climate change issue is green house gases emission. National Standardization Body (BSN) held a "Seminar on Standardization of Green House Gasses" on November 18, 2009 at Balai Kartini Jakarta. The seminar was held as a series of the peak activity of the national Quality Month and World Standard Day 2009 with a theme "Standard to Encounter Climate Change". Upon opening the seminar, the Head of BSN, Dr. Bambang Setiadi extended that BSN held a Seminar on Standardization of Green House Gasses because Indonesia is highly concerned. Al this time, World Bank reports that Indonesia ranks second as a green house gasses contributor after USA and PRC.

But, actually the method of green house gasses count is still debatable.  According to Dr. Bambang Setiadi, green house gasses emission count fails to take into account deforestation factor in Indonesia. Therefore, he expected the Seminar on Green House Gasses can result in a formulation on standardization of green house gasses. BSN itself is preparing Indonesia national Standard (SNI) to Green House Gasses serving as one of 100 programs to support United Indonesia Cabinet II. The Seminar on Green House Gasses presented a speaker namely Dr. Retno Gumilang Dewi, Chemical Engineering Lecturer of ITB and Researcher at Energy Policy Centre of ITB on Standard to Green House Gasses. She completely reviewed the scope of ISO 14064 parts 1, 2, and 3 already serving as SNI with identical equation level through re-publication method. DR. Retno also extended another significant thing that all this time Indonesia is accused of being the 3rd contributor to the biggest carbon emission after USA and China by World Bank, DFID, PEACE 2007. Whereas, if peat moss land fire emission is not counted in LULUCF (Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry), Indonesia is not the 3rd world GHG emitter (Dewi RG, 2009) but ranks the 6th after USA, China, Brazil, Russia and India).

This data will be included in SNC (Indonesia Second National Communication, 2009). Missing Sources of WB does not count the absorption of LULUCF sector and waste, agricultural and industrial emission.  The seminar also presented another speaker namely Dra. Zakiyah, MM, the Head of Certification Body Accreditation - BSN, on Conformity Assessment system of standard to Green House Gasses. Dra. Zakiyah, MM explained GHG accreditation, validation or verification system under ISO 14065:2007. The last agenda of the seminar is Soft Launching of Scheme of Accreditation of Green House Gasses by the Deputy Head of Standard and Accreditation Application - BSN, Dr. Sunarya. DR. Sunarya explained roadmap to make BSN in 2010- 2011. The GHG accreditation and certification system can expectedly be implemented in 2011. The most important thing to do is improvement of capacity building of human resources (technical competency), stakeholders' cooperation, pilot project, market demand creation and awareness improvement. The scope of accreditation and certification gives priority to energy, waste management and forestry to support Indonesia's commitment target to reduce GHG emission by 26% in 2020. Moderator in the discussion was Ir. Rustiawan Anis, Msi, Member of 13-03/S4 Sub Technical Committee, Environmental Management-Ministry of Environment.(arf/dew)