G20 backs carbon pricing, ‘raising stakes’ among emerging economies

Source: Climate Home News Date: 12 July 2021  The EU's threatened carbon tariff on imports has spurred trading partners like Indonesia and Turkey to consider making polluters pay at home G20 finance ministers have for the first time endorsed carbon pricing as a tool to transition to a low-carbo...

Indonesia bets on biofuels over oil, but EVs could render both moot

Source: Mongabay Date: 12 July 2021Increased adoption of electric vehicles could render redundant Indonesia's biofuel infrastructure, which the government is touting as its chosen alternative to fossil fuels.A new report projects demand for biofuel more than halving as EVs take hold, even as the gov...

Indonesia, World Bank strike deal on emissions reduction

Source: The Jakarta PostDate: 28 November 2020 The Environment and Forestry Ministry and the World Bank signed a deal on Friday on the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF), which provides an additional opportunity for the government to receive payments in exchange for reducing carbon emissions....

Here's how we can reduce emissions from the shipping industry

Source: World Economic Forum Date: 23 October 2020  The global shipping industry's annual greenhouse-gas emissions total more than one billion tons.Reducing them is critical in the fight against climate change.Former President of Costa Rica José María Figueres writes that shrinking emissio...

Methane emissions rise nine percent in decade

Source: The Jakarta Post Date: 15 July 2020 Emissions of methane -- a planet-warming gas several times more potent than carbon dioxide -- have risen by nine percent in a decade driven by mankind's insatiable hunger for energy and food, a major international study concluded Wednesday. Methane (C...

How Can Indonesia Achieve Its Climate Change Mitigation Goal? An Analysis of Potential Emissions Reductions from Energy and Land-Use Policies

Source: World Resources Institute  Indonesia is one of the world's largest emitters of greenhouse gases (GHG). For the past two decades, GHG emissions have increased from almost all sectors, such as land-use (defined as land use, land-use change, and forestry including peat fires), energy, agri...