REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- A lawmaker said Indonesia should play a greater role in the 21st Conference of Parties (COP) of the United Nation Framework on Climate Change (UNFCCC)aimed at saving the earth and mankind.

Greenhouse gases will degrade the ecology quality, the economy even the existence of the state,Andi Akmal Pasluddin of the Commission IV of the Parliament said here on Monday.

Therefore, Indonesia should take more active role in the conference to take place in Paris from Nov. 30 to Dec. 11, Akmal from the Islamic faction of Justice and Prosperous Party, which is member of the opposition coalition.

Currently the air temperature is rising in many parts of the world including Indonesia, causing a climate change that endangers life, he said.