Dec 12 (AFP) -- Indonesian activists rallied in front of the US embassy Saturday to urge the superpower to support developing nations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
About 150 activists from various local organisations chanted "US is the biggest emitter" while unfurling banners that read "US is the carbon mafia leader" and "Be a part of a legally binding agreement".
"We rally in front of the US embassy to urge the US in joining developing nations in a mechanism to reduce greenhouse gas emissions," Indonesia Forum for the Environment deputy director Ali Akbar told AFP.
"If the US fails to act and commit further, then many of those nations will also lag in the fight against cutting emissions," he said, adding that the US should take action at the Copenhagen summit.
"We don't want the discussion in Copenhagen to remain raw," Akbar said.
Indonesia is the third biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, after China and the United States -- 80 percent of its emissions are the result of deforestation.
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