Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono during a meeting in Jakarta. With Indonesia and the U.S. being the world’s second and third largest greenhouse gas emitters, members of Greenpeace rallied outside the presidential palace during the meeting to bring attention to reducing emissions.

“We call on the US leadership to handle the issue of climate change seriously and we ask developed countries like the US to provide funds to countries like Indonesia to save their forests and support their efforts to reduce emissions,” Greenpeace forest campaigner Bustar Maitar said.

For Indonesia, forest-clearing is the main cause of emissions and Clinton told Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda that she “applauded” Indonesian efforts to “integrate deforestation into the broader climate negotiations.”

However, Greenpeace maintains that the United States needs to have stratedgies in place that would offer countries financial incentives to stop deforestation and offer environmentally friendly development alternatives.