2 March 2023
Debate erupts over Japan-backed transition finance guidelines for S-E Asia
The Business Times-A Singapore-based social enterprise is criticising two sets…
10 January 2023
Energy Round Up
Katadata (The Insights)-Indonesia and a group of developed countries…
23 December 2022
Indonesia’s Bumpy Clean Energy Transition
Fair Planet-Indonesia obtained billions from G20 countries to meet its climate…
21 December 2022
Nuevo plan climático de Indonesia: Avances lentos pero cambios inminentes
Reporte Asia-El último plan climático de Indonesia, publicado poco antes de las…
19 December 2022
Indonesia’s new climate plan: Slow progress but change imminent
The improved national targets are still a long way from a 1.5C pathway finds…
15 December 2022
Vietnam kömürden çıkış için 15,5 milyar dolar destek alacak
G7 ülkeleri, Danimarka ve Norveç, Vietnam'a Adil Geçiş Ortaklığı kapsamında…
14 December 2022
Rich nations mobilise $15.5bn for Vietnam’s coal-to-clean transition
The deal will help Vietnam to peak its greenhouse gas emissions five years…
5 December 2022
Despite a $20 Billion Deal for A Transition to Clean Energy, Indonesia Plans to Construct Coal Plants!
Enviro360-Despite a recent $20 billion agreement with the G7 group of…
18 November 2022
RI’s $20b climate deal requires eye on debt: Experts
The Jakarta Post-A recently announced international climate financing deal will…
17 November 2022
Une du jour. Transition énergétique : pour les pays pauvres, gare au cercle infernal de l’endettement
Selon des économistes indonésiens, la déclaration commune du G20 sur la…
16 November 2022
Indonesia seals $20 billion deal with G7 to speed up clean energy transition
Mongabay-Indonesia has struck a historic deal with the G7 group of…
15 November 2022
Wealthy Nations Offer Indonesia $20 Billion to Curb Coal
The deal is the most ambitious effort yet by the United States and European…
12 November 2022
Estados Unidos decepciona con su primer anuncio en la COP27
La Administración Biden presenta un nuevo mercado de compensación de emisiones……
1 November 2022
THE TRUE COST OF CHINA’S BRI PROJECTS IN INDONESIA
Indonesia is supporting China's One Belt One Road (OBOR) foreign policy by…
11 October 2022
Indonesian banks prop up coal industry increasingly shunned by outside lenders
Mongabay-Indonesia’s four largest banks handed out loans totaling $3.5 billion…
6 October 2022
World Bank ‘has given nearly $15bn to fossil fuel projects since Paris deal’
A group of 50 NGOs found that bank and subsidiaries had funded oil refinery and…
21 September 2022
Emissions and deforestation set to spike under Indonesia’s biomass transition
Mongabay—Indonesia’s program to wean itself off coal by burning it alongside…
30 August 2022
Biomass cofiring loopholes put coal on open-ended life support in Asia
Mongabay-Amid calls for developed nations to phase out coal use by 2030, and…
7 June 2022
A US company is quietly building a massive coal-to-gas plant – in Indonesia
Energy Monitor-In January 2022, Indonesia broke ground on a $2.3bn coal…
17 May 2022
IN FOCUS: Indonesia wants to bag EV riches, but locals are split over what it means for them
Channel News Asia-Farmer Ratna, 65, had been walking barefoot for 40 minutes…
8 April 2022
As G20 chair, coal-heavy Indonesia sends mixed signals on green transition
Thomson Reuters Foundation-Indonesia is using its stint as G20 president to…
30 March 2022
Indonesia’s gasification plans could be costly for budget and environment
Mongabay--In late January, Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo…
10 February 2022
Land rights controversy shakes up capital relocation plan
Jakarta Post-Nusantara, the government’s new capital city project, is facing…
21 January 2022
Banks Urged to Stop Financing Coal-Related Businesses
Tempo.co--A group called the 'clean Indonesia coalition' on Friday launched a…
12 January 2022
Indonesia’s coal gasification plans move forward, despite coal pledge
China Dialogue--Indonesia’s plans to build a new national coal gasification…
10 January 2022
As blackouts loom, Indonesia’s energy crisis underscores its addiction to coal
Eco Business--An abrupt ban on coal exports by the Indonesian government for…
14 December 2021
World Bank’s Development Policy Finance: still funding fossil fuels and unsustainable energy models
Eco Business--The World Bank’s budget (or policy) support to key countries in…
14 December 2021
China’s pivot from funding coal plants to gasification slammed as more of the same
Mongabay--When China announced, in late September, that it would stop financing…
1 December 2021
Indonesia’s new plan for coal: It pollutes land and air, so why not the sea too?
JAKARTA—Having already declared coal ash non-hazardous waste, the Indonesian…
5 November 2021
Greening Indonesia proves a dirty job but Joko has to do it
Sidney Morning Herald---When British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the…
28 October 2021
Indonesia’s ‘green’ electricity plan undermines its climate vows, activists say
Mongabay, Jakarta—Indonesia’s new 10-year plan for electricity generation…
29 September 2021
World Bank’s plans for Indonesia: Delayed action on climate and continued coal and gas support
Brettonwoods Project-Indonesian civil society organisations (CSOs) have raised…
5 August 2021
Indonesia’s coal phaseout is just more business as usual, report says
Mongabay—Indonesia’s plan to phase out coal is a mere rebranding of an existing…
11 June 2021
Net zero commitment and the need to halt coal energy
The Jakarta Post-State electricity company PLN has recently pledged to stop…
8 June 2021
Indonesia to retire coal-fired power plants while also adding more
JAKARTA — Indonesia says it will begin retiring coal-fired power plants for…
3 May 2021
Indonesia’s extractive industry vulnerable to natural disasters: Report
Thousands of mines, power plants and other facilities in the extractive…
14 April 2021
Pollution and foreign debt: Indonesia’s unhealthy addiction to coal
Over the years, married couple Edi Suriana and Masitah have grown accustomed to…
11 March 2021
Never mind the mercury: Indonesia says coal ash isn’t hazardous
JAKARTA — The Indonesian government has declared coal ash is no longer a…
28 December 2020
The Dumb Dream of Turning Coal to Gas Just Won’t Die
Gizmodo-The process of turning coal—possibly the most carbon-intensive and…
30 June 2020
South Korea to Pump Public Money Into New Indonesian Coal Despite Green Election Pledges
A South Korean public institution has announced it will back a controversial…
27 June 2020
Activists, Residents Demand South Korea withdraw from Banten Power Plant Projects
Dozens of environmentalists and residents of Banten staged a rally in front of…
17 December 2019
Civil Coalition Deems Jokowi’s Capital Relocation Plan Ambitious
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Several NGOs joined in the civil society coalition dubbed…
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Open Letter: Japan’s “Zero Emissions” strategy is a fallacy – Japan must support just and equitable transition from fossil fuels not “false solutions”
On March 4, the Japanese government is hosting the Asia Zero Emissions Community (AZEC) Ministerial Meeting in…
2 March 2023
World Bank Evolution Roadmap an Expansion of Business as Usual–True Transformation Needed
The CSO coalition sent the letter to the US Treasury and all the WBG executive directors regarding a call for an…
10 February 2023
Principles and Guidelines for an Equitable and Just Energy Transition in Indonesia
This document contains the stance and demands expressed by Indonesian civil society organizations in responding to…
20 October 2022
Press Release
Workplace Accident: Neglect and Violation of Employee Rights in Indonesia Nickel Industrial Areas
Jakarta, February 13, 2023-Smelters in Indonesia, owned mainly by overseas companies from China, are terrible places…
13 March 2023
#BersihkanIndonesia Movement Denounces Government’s Proposal to Include Fossil Gas in JETP Energy Transition Scheme
Jakarta, February 22, 2023-In response to the recent announcement of the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP)…
22 February 2023
Experts reactions to IEA Coal Report
London, 16 December-Today the IEA released their Coal 2022 report, highlighting the incredibly complex global…
16 December 2022
Research
Cautious optimism: How IMF economic surveillance can foster the green transition
How do the IMF’s policies link up to green transition objectives? While the organization may be better known for…
11 November 2022
The Looming Deforestation Threat from Energy Wood Plantation
Upon hearing President Joko Widodo’s speech in the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in…
8 November 2022