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Cycling began activated the Government of Bogor city, West Java, in order to meet the first of the conference on the actions of Muslims to address the challenges of climate change to take place in Buitenzorg, 1-2 March.

said it took the clerk’s range of activities to promote healthy bicycles and bicycle relaxed surrounding area.

“To the entire work unit area (SKPD) and wider community we intensify again appealed for cycling,” he said.

In the ordinary bicycle, participants pedaled through the streets with the protocol in the city of Bogor. After two hours of cycling, they return to the courthouse to do activities kedinasannya.

According to him, in fact cycling events each Friday has been held in 2009 in the city of Bogor. Sadly, he said, the movement does not continue, so that the conference ahead of the Islamic countries to climate change, the institute urged and reminded to all employees for the declared Friday as a day of cycling.

He acknowledged that the current climate conditions have changed, in which the air temperature was less cool in Bogor. “This is one of the worst impacts of environmental preservation,” he said.

Therefore, it invites people to cut the use of motor vehicles on certain occasions, especially on Friday.

He said the municipal government has undertaken various efforts to make preventive Bogor on climate change, such as through programs shift the public transportation (public transportation), to take to reduce emissions generated an increasing number of vehicles.

In addition, the original angkot use fuel oil (fuel), will switch to gas fuel.

For the initial stage, as many as 1000 units should use its public transportation fuels gas. “Because, angkot largest contributor to carbon monoxide, because the number angkit at Bogor is overwhelming, ‘he says.

“Other efforts have been made that the utilization of used cooking oil into biodiesel that will fuel buses for Traspakuan,” he said.

In the meantime, R Diah Sulistiowati of the Indonesian Biodiversity Foundation (KEHATI) describes the city of Bogor was chosen to host the first Conference of the Muslim action to face the challenges of climate change to be held in March 2010 1-2.

According to him, that activity is a continuation of the declaration agenda ‘Muslim Seven Year Plan for Climate Change action’ (M7YAP) or ‘Seven Year Plan of Action for Climate Change Muslims’ which was declared in Istanbul, Turkey in early June 2009.

Conference which was held thanks to the cooperation several nongovernmental organizations such as Muhammadiyah, Nahdhatul Ulama (NU), the Indonesian Ulema Council, KEHATI and Conservation International Foundation (CI) of Indonesia, supported by Ministry of Forestry, Ministry of Environment, City Government, Ministry of Religious Affairs, and National Council on Climate Change (DNPI).

‘Conference also gained the support of’ Earth Dialogues Mate Centre ‘(EMDC) based in London, England,’ he said.

He said the conference followed 150 people from among environmental experts, scientists and scholars of the 30 Muslim populated country like the United Arab Emirates, Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, India, Africa, Saudi Arabia, Iranians, Kuwaitis, Egyptians, British and Indonesian.

According to him, the meeting will also be formed Muslim Community Association for the Action on Climate Change (Association of Muslim Action for Climate Change-MACCA).

This association is expected to become an umbrella organization that will guide activities and implement the action plans for seven years in various countries and Muslim communities in the world.

“Climate change has been a challenge all of mankind, and therefore everyone’s responsibility to take action and take action in overcoming it, not even the Muslims,” she said.