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					<title>Saving forests won’t be enough if fossil fuels beneath them are still extracted, experts warn</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/saving-forests-wont-be-enough-if-fossil-fuels-beneath-them-are-still-extracted-experts-warn/</link>
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					<pubDate>26 Nov 2025 11:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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						<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Brazil, China, Global, India, and Indonesia]]>
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							<![CDATA[carbon, Carbon Emissions, Climate, Climate Change, climate finance, Coal, Conservation, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, Forest Carbon, Forests, Fossil Fuels, Fossils, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Natural Gas, Oil, Oil Drilling, Politics, Protected Areas, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Research, Threats To Rainforests, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[BELÉM, Brazil — A new analysis warns that the world is overlooking a major source of future emissions hidden beneath tropical forests — and that Brazil’s newly launched Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) could dramatically expand its climate impact by addressing it. Published by the nonprofit Leave it in the Ground Initiative (LINGO), the study overlays [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[BELÉM, Brazil — A new analysis warns that the world is overlooking a major source of future emissions hidden beneath tropical forests — and that Brazil’s newly launched Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) could dramatically expand its climate impact by addressing it. Published by the nonprofit Leave it in the Ground Initiative (LINGO), the study overlays forest cover with national fossil fuel deposit maps and finds that forests in 68 countries sit on top of oil, gas and coal deposits whose extraction would release an estimated 317 billion metric tons of greenhouse gases. When including all resources, not just proven reserves, the figure rises to 4.6 trillion metric tons. The 317 gigaton (Gt) figure alone exceeds the remaining global carbon budget to keep warming below 1.5° Celsius (2.7° Fahrenheit), raising the stakes for countries that may be asked to choose between forest protection and fossil fuel extraction. “[We found] that governments were quite unwilling to stop fossil fuel extraction, even if it’s a national park, even if it’s a UNESCO World Heritage Site, or other categories of nature conservation,” LINGO director Kjell Kühne said at a side event of the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil. LINGO argues that forests sitting on fossil reserves face heightened risk, as authorities may see extraction as too financially valuable to forgo — even where forests are intact or legally protected. Maps of TFFF biomes with underlying oil/gas and coal. Image courtesy of LINGO A blind spot in forest finance All forests identified in the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/saving-forests-wont-be-enough-if-fossil-fuels-beneath-them-are-still-extracted-experts-warn/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Indonesia mulls Paris Agreement exit, citing fairness and energy transition costs</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/02/indonesia-mulls-paris-agreement-exit-citing-fairness-and-energy-transition-costs/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Feb 2025 11:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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						<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Carbon Emissions, Climate, Climate Change, climate finance, Climate Justice, Coal, Emission Reduction, Energy, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Fossils, Global Warming, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Just Transition, Politics, and Renewable Energy]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Indonesia, one of the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitters, has signaled it might follow in the footsteps of the U.S. and withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. “If the United State [the second-biggest emitter after China] does not want to comply with the international agreement, why should a country like Indonesia comply with [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Indonesia, one of the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitters, has signaled it might follow in the footsteps of the U.S. and withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. “If the United State [the second-biggest emitter after China] does not want to comply with the international agreement, why should a country like Indonesia comply with it?” Hashim Djojohadikusumo, Indonesia’s special envoy for climate change and energy, said at a sustainability forum in Jakarta on Jan. 31. He pointed to the stark disparity in per capita carbon emissions, with the U.S. emitting approximately 13 metric tons of carbon per person annually, while the average Indonesian emits about 3 metric tons. “[Y]et we are the ones being told to close our power plants and reduce our [coal-fired] power plants. So, where is the sense of justice here?” said Hashim, who is also the younger brother of President Prabowo Subianto. The remarks from the country’s climate envoy have triggered strong backlash from environmental groups, who call the stance legally irresponsible, economically short-sighted, and environmentally disastrous. While Indonesia hasn’t officially stated any plans to withdraw from the 2015 Paris Agreement, a growing number of top officials have questioned the fairness of Indonesia’s commitment to reducing emissions when a major polluter like the U.S. has opted out. Bahlil Lahadalia, the minister of energy and mines, said the U.S. withdrawal from the agreement could lead to a decrease in financial support for renewable energy projects. That will make it difficult for Indonesia to remain committed to&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/02/indonesia-mulls-paris-agreement-exit-citing-fairness-and-energy-transition-costs/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-293855</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Pressure grows on banks to end business with Indonesian coal giant Adaro</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/pressure-grows-on-banks-to-end-business-with-indonesian-coal-giant-adaro/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 May 2024 16:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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						<![CDATA[Hayat Indriyatno]]>
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							<![CDATA[Alternative Energy, Carbon Emissions, charcoal, Clean Energy, Climate, Climate Change, Coal, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporations, Emission Reduction, Energy, Environment, Finance, Fossil Fuels, Fossils, Global Environmental Crisis, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Just Transition, Mining, Politics, and Renewable Energy]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Calls are mounting for global financiers to cut ties with Adaro, one of Indonesia’s biggest coal companies, as the miner shows no sign of moving away from the fossil fuel despite its net-zero pledge. More than 33,000 people have signed an online petition calling on JPMorgan, Citi and Deutsche Bank to drop Adaro [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Calls are mounting for global financiers to cut ties with Adaro, one of Indonesia’s biggest coal companies, as the miner shows no sign of moving away from the fossil fuel despite its net-zero pledge. More than 33,000 people have signed an online petition calling on JPMorgan, Citi and Deutsche Bank to drop Adaro as a client. Citi has loaned $400 million to Adaro, while JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) policies don’t rule out financing the company. Adaro is a major emitter, responsible for 0.28% of global CO2 output since the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2015, according to research by the Carbon Major Database. But the company lacks credible plans to reduce its emissions, according to the petition, organized by global consumer watchdog Ekō. Apekshita Varshney, campaigner at Ekō, called Adaro’s business model “toxic,” with 70% of its total revenue still coming from sales of thermal coal, the type used to generate electricity. “Banks considering it as a client while at the same time trying to present a green face to the world risk serious harm to their reputation,” she said. Amid environmental concerns, major banks like BNP Paribas and DBS have refused to underwrite any future bonds for Adaro, while South Korean automaker Hyundai scrapped a deal to source aluminum from an Adaro-built smelter, Varshney pointed out. “It’s a clear signal that coal miners cannot get away with greenwash and fake transition plans,” she said. In April 2022, Adaro Energy’s CEO, Garibaldi&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/pressure-grows-on-banks-to-end-business-with-indonesian-coal-giant-adaro/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Critics see payback in Indonesia’s plan to grant mining permits to religious groups</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/critics-see-payback-in-indonesias-plan-to-grant-mining-permits-to-religious-groups/</link>
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					<pubDate>21 May 2024 05:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Irfan Maulana]]>
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						<![CDATA[Hayat Indriyatno]]>
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							<![CDATA[Land rights and extractives]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Climate Change, Coal, Corporations, Energy, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Fossils, Industry, Infrastructure, Land Rights, Mining, Politics, Pollution, Protests, Rainforests, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Critics have slammed Indonesia’s outgoing government over a plan to hand out mining permits revoked from companies to religious organizations — not on the basis of the latter’s mining competence, but simply because they played an important role in the country’s independence struggle nearly 80 years ago. The push is being led by [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Critics have slammed Indonesia’s outgoing government over a plan to hand out mining permits revoked from companies to religious organizations — not on the basis of the latter’s mining competence, but simply because they played an important role in the country’s independence struggle nearly 80 years ago. The push is being led by the investment minister, Bahlil Lahadalia, who faces allegations of self-dealing and corruption in the revocation and reissuance of mining permits, according to reporting by investigative news outlet Tempo. The proposed handouts are more of the same, critics say: payback to religious organizations for their support of President Joko Widodo’s preferred candidate in February’s election. “Who were the liberation figures of our nation?” Bahlil said at a press conference at his office in Jakarta on April 29. “Now that Indonesia is independent, should we not give them some attention?” “It’s nonsense,&#8221; Muhammad Jamil, head of the legal desk at the National Mining Advocacy Network (Jatam), a watchdog group, told Mongabay Indonesia on May 1. “There is no legal basis” for such a handout, Jamil added. The Mantan River in Indonesia&#8217;s Jambi province is allegedly contaminated with mining waste from nearby coal operations. Image by Teguh Suprayitno/Mongabay Indonesia Questions remain over how the government can rearrange the country’s legal and regulatory framework to enable religious organizations, which are incorporated as charitable foundations, to hold mining permits, which may only be issued to commercial enterprises. Civil society groups told Mongabay that land clawed back by the state from corporate&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/critics-see-payback-in-indonesias-plan-to-grant-mining-permits-to-religious-groups/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Indonesians uprooted by mining industry call for a fairer future amid presidential vote</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/03/indonesians-uprooted-by-mining-industry-call-for-a-fairer-future-amid-presidential-vote/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Mar 2024 15:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Petrus RiskiTaufik Wijaya]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Philip Jacobson]]>
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							<![CDATA[Land rights and extractives]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, East Java, Indonesia, Java, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Climate Change, Coal, Corporations, Energy, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Fossils, Industry, Infrastructure, Land Rights, Mining, Politics, Pollution, Protests, Rainforests, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[SIDOARJO, Indonesia — On the eve of Indonesia’s presidential election on Feb. 14, a group of people from across the country gathered at an impromptu art exhibition by the side of a main road in Sidoarjo district, East Java province. One canvas, propped up on a roadside verge, featured caricatures of the three candidates vying [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[SIDOARJO, Indonesia — On the eve of Indonesia’s presidential election on Feb. 14, a group of people from across the country gathered at an impromptu art exhibition by the side of a main road in Sidoarjo district, East Java province. One canvas, propped up on a roadside verge, featured caricatures of the three candidates vying to replace President Joko Widodo after a decade in government; it’s title, in Indonesian, was “Elections in the Grip of the Oligarchy.” A collection of 10 caricatures and cartoons by artist Toni Malakian illustrated a satirical chronology of the Lapindo mudflow spanning almost two decades, right here in Sidoarjo, beginning with the onset of the disaster in 2006 to the ongoing fallout experienced by its victims in the present day. For some of the tens of thousands who were made homeless by the disaster, Indonesia’s February election was a time to remind and to raise awareness of their experience. “Since 2006, rules were passed [to address the disaster],” said Harwati from Sidoarjo’s Siring village, referring to the year her family was made homeless by the Lapindo disaster. “But for us they haven’t been realized.” Coal mining in East Kalimantan. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay. Mud slinging On May 29, 2006, a trickle of mud began to emerge from the middle of a rice field near Herwati’s home, set back from a gas exploration site a short drive south of Indonesia’s second city, Surabaya. The trickle turned into a gush, and then a torrent, submerging 12&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/03/indonesians-uprooted-by-mining-industry-call-for-a-fairer-future-amid-presidential-vote/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-279423</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Indonesian utility PLN ordered to disclose coal plants’ emissions data</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/01/indonesian-utility-pln-ordered-to-disclose-coal-plants-emissions-data/</link>
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					<pubDate>31 Jan 2024 03:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Hayat Indriyatno]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, Java, Southeast Asia, Sumatra, and West Sumatra]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Air Pollution, charcoal, Climate Change, Coal, data, Energy, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Fossils, Pollution, Public Health, and Waste]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — The Indonesian government’s freedom-of-information clearinghouse has ordered state-owned electricity utility PLN to disclose emissions data for some of the country’s biggest coal-fired power plants. The decision by the Public Information Commission (KIP) comes in response to a complaint filed in 2023 by Margaretha Aquina, a lawyer for the international program at U.K.-based advocacy [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — The Indonesian government’s freedom-of-information clearinghouse has ordered state-owned electricity utility PLN to disclose emissions data for some of the country’s biggest coal-fired power plants. The decision by the Public Information Commission (KIP) comes in response to a complaint filed in 2023 by Margaretha Aquina, a lawyer for the international program at U.K.-based advocacy group Earthsight. The complaint centered on PLN’s refusal to disclose upon request emissions and waste management data for its coal plants in Suralaya, Banten province, and Ombilin, West Sumatra province. In its Jan. 18 decision, the KIP said the data in question are public information, given that PLN is owned by the state and thus funded by the public, and should therefore be released to the public. But while the KIP ordered the release of the emissions data from Suralaya, a fleet of eight coal-fired plants, and Ombilin, a single plant, it ordered the release of waste management data only from the Ombilin plant. PLN had argued that the requested data constituted trade secrets and could be misused to spread disinformation, and thus should be kept out of the public view. “If data like this that benefits the public [if disclosed] is treated like a trade secret, then imagine the consequence,” Margaretha said at a press conference last year. “Imagine how journalists could assess where does the pollution in Jakarta come from. Imagine if there’s a captive coal plant that’s so polluting and its emission data is treated as confidential.” She cited past instances in&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/01/indonesian-utility-pln-ordered-to-disclose-coal-plants-emissions-data/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-278263</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Indonesia pushes carbon-intensive ‘false solutions’ in its energy transition</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/12/indonesia-pushes-carbon-intensive-false-solutions-in-its-energy-transition/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Dec 2023 06:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Alternative Energy, Bioenergy, carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Clean Energy, Climate, Climate Change, climate finance, Coal, Deforestation, Energy, Environment, Finance, Forests, Fossil Fuels, Fossils, Governance, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Natural Gas, Plantations, Politics, Rainforests, Renewable Energy, Threats To Rainforests, Tropical Deforestation, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[MALINAU, Indonesia — Indonesia’s newly revised energy transition plan includes a more stringent limit on carbon emissions, an increase in the share of renewable energy generation, and a diversified range of funding types to cover the $20 billion tab. But energy analysts say the plan is heavy on “false solutions” that will negate any emissions [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[MALINAU, Indonesia — Indonesia’s newly revised energy transition plan includes a more stringent limit on carbon emissions, an increase in the share of renewable energy generation, and a diversified range of funding types to cover the $20 billion tab. But energy analysts say the plan is heavy on “false solutions” that will negate any emissions cuts it promises. The emissions cap, they note, comes with a massive loophole for off-grid coal plants; the renewable aspect relies on building centralized hydropower and geothermal plants rather than small-scale solar and wind; and the funding will come overwhelmingly in the form of high-interest loans from the rich countries most responsible for the climate crisis. Known as the Comprehensive Investment and Policy Plan (CIPP), it sets out the road map for Indonesia’s Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP), under which the country will receive $20 billion in funding from the G7 group of rich nations plus Denmark and Norway to decarbonize its grid. In the latest draft of the CIPP, the government plans to cap emissions at 250 million metric tons of CO2 (MtCO2) by 2030, down from a previous target of 290 MtCO2. Yet its ultimate goal of achieving net-zero emissions in the electricity sector has a deadline of 2050. This is a decade later than what the Paris Agreement, which Indonesia has signed up to, calls for, according to Jakarta-based think tank the Institute for Essential Services Reform (IESR), which is part of the technical working group helping draft the CIPP. There’s also&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/12/indonesia-pushes-carbon-intensive-false-solutions-in-its-energy-transition/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-276275</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Delay of Indonesia’s energy transition plan a chance to get public input</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/delay-of-indonesias-energy-transition-plan-a-chance-to-get-public-input/</link>
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					<pubDate>25 Sep 2023 15:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
						</dc:creator>
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						<![CDATA[Hayat Indriyatno]]>
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							<![CDATA[charcoal, Climate, Climate Change, climate finance, Coal, Energy, Environment, Finance, Fossil Fuels, Fossils, and Renewable Energy]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Observers are calling for greater public participation and transparency in a $20 billion effort by Indonesia to move away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy, following the government’s failure to publish the plan for the phased transition in time. Under the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP), signed in 2022, the G7 group [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Observers are calling for greater public participation and transparency in a $20 billion effort by Indonesia to move away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy, following the government’s failure to publish the plan for the phased transition in time. Under the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP), signed in 2022, the G7 group of industrialized countries plus Denmark and Norway have committed to providing the funding to help Indonesia in its energy transition agenda. Before the money can start flowing, however, Indonesia has to draft an investment plan that will serve as a guideline for how the money will be used, such as shutting down coal-fired power plants and developing renewable energy. That investment plan was supposed to be launched to the public on Aug. 16, but has been delayed to the end of this year because the draft didn’t included data on so-called captive coal plants — a category that doesn’t feed into the grid, but instead serves specific energy-intensive industries such as metal processing. The delay should serve as an opportunity for the JETP secretariat, the government-established body tasked to formulate the plan, to involve the public more in the drafting process, energy policy experts say. This is important to ensure the JETP funding is spent in ways that benefit society and not just specific stakeholders like companies, they add. In particular, they point to the ramifications of a rushed phaseout of coal plants without adequate protections for those people dependent on them for their livelihoods.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/delay-of-indonesias-energy-transition-plan-a-chance-to-get-public-input/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-273615</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Experts see red over Indonesia’s planned green investment label for coal plants</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/experts-see-red-over-indonesias-planned-green-investment-label-for-coal-plants/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Sep 2023 15:07:43 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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						<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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							<![CDATA[charcoal, Climate Change, Coal, Electric Cars, Environment, Finance, Forests, Fossil Fuels, Fossils, and Taxonomy]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Indonesia’s move to categorize coal-fired power plants for industry as sustainable has sparked criticism from energy and finance observers, who say it goes against the scientific evidence. The country’s financial regulator, the OJK, is in the process of revising the country’s Green Taxonomy, a framework defining what kinds of investments may be considered [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Indonesia’s move to categorize coal-fired power plants for industry as sustainable has sparked criticism from energy and finance observers, who say it goes against the scientific evidence. The country’s financial regulator, the OJK, is in the process of revising the country’s Green Taxonomy, a framework defining what kinds of investments may be considered environment-friendly, and thus eligible for various incentives. Among the proposed revisions is giving a green label to new coal-fired power plants that exclusively serve the metal-processing industry. Such a label, the cleanest on the Green Taxonomy’s green-yellow-red scale, would effectively define these so-called captive coal plants as projects that “protect or improve the environment,” the same as renewable energy projects. “It is extremely concerning that now, new coal-powered generation could be seen as protecting or improving the environment,” Christina Ng and Putra Adhiguna, researchers at the U.S.-based Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), wrote in a commentary. “This simply goes against scientific evidence.” They warned this will relegate Indonesia to the bottom of the pack of global green or sustainable finance taxonomies. The Suralaya coal-fired power plant in Indonesia. Image courtesy of Trend Asia. ‘State-sanctioned greenwashing’ There are at least 10 green or sustainable finance taxonomies that have been published globally. None recognize coal power as green, including markets like China and Russia, where, like in Indonesia, coal still has a heavy presence and new coal-fired power plants are in the pipeline. “If the country goes ahead with the latest idea, of using the aim&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/experts-see-red-over-indonesias-planned-green-investment-label-for-coal-plants/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-272986</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Indonesian voters want a clean energy plan, but candidates haven’t delivered</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/indonesia-presidential-election-clean-energy-transition-coal-fossil-fuel-prabowo-ganjar-anies/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Sep 2023 04:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Basten Gokkon]]>
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						<![CDATA[Basten Gokkon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Air Pollution, Business, Carbon Emissions, Clean Energy, Climate, Climate Change, climate finance, Climate Science, Coal, Corporations, Economics, Emission Reduction, Energy, Environment, Finance, Forestry, Fossil Fuels, Fossils, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Industry, Infrastructure, Politics, Pollution, Rainforests, Renewable Energy, Research, Science, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Environmental policy experts are calling on the presidential hopefuls in Indonesia’s election next year to lay out their strategies for moving the country away from fossil fuels and toward cleaner sources of energy. Indonesia, the world’s fourth-largest democracy, holds presidential and legislative elections in February 2024. Three prominent figures have already declared their [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Environmental policy experts are calling on the presidential hopefuls in Indonesia’s election next year to lay out their strategies for moving the country away from fossil fuels and toward cleaner sources of energy. Indonesia, the world’s fourth-largest democracy, holds presidential and legislative elections in February 2024. Three prominent figures have already declared their candidacies for the main event, but none have spoken about any kind of an energy transition for a country that’s the world’s biggest exporter of coal. Most likely voters younger than 44 say they experience the dire effects of climate change and expect the candidates to offer substantial plans to resolve them, according to a new survey published Sept. 5 by the Center of Economic and Law Studies (CELIOS) and the UniTrend research institute at Gadjah Mada University. “Our hope is that this survey would be a fundamental source to attract votes,” Bhima Yudhistira Adhinegara, the executive director of CELIOS, said at a press conference in Jakarta. “We can’t let environmental issues become second or even last to matters of political coalition. Discussions about environmental issues during the 2024 election cycle will have impacts for the next generations.” People affected by coal-fired power plants across Indonesia stage a protest outside the energy ministry in Jakarta to demand a switch to renewable energy. Image by Hans Nicholas Jong/Mongabay. The survey, conducted from March 31-April 15, asked 1,245 Indonesians older than 18 from urban and rural areas in all provinces for their views of the climate crisis&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/indonesia-presidential-election-clean-energy-transition-coal-fossil-fuel-prabowo-ganjar-anies/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-272943</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Captive coal-fired power plants hinder Indonesia energy transition deal</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/08/captive-coal-fired-power-plants-hinder-indonesia-energy-transition-deal/</link>
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					<pubDate>29 Aug 2023 15:07:57 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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						<![CDATA[Karen Coates]]>
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							<![CDATA[Carbon Emissions, charcoal, Climate, Climate Change, Coal, Emission Reduction, Energy, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Fossils, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Politics, and Renewable Energy]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Indonesia’s deal with industrialized countries for the latter to channel $20 billion in funding to help speed up the former’s energy transition is hitting a snag due to captive coal-fired power plants. Indonesia is among the world’s biggest consumers of coal, the single largest energy source of planet-heating carbon dioxide. Last year, Indonesia [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Indonesia’s deal with industrialized countries for the latter to channel $20 billion in funding to help speed up the former’s energy transition is hitting a snag due to captive coal-fired power plants. Indonesia is among the world’s biggest consumers of coal, the single largest energy source of planet-heating carbon dioxide. Last year, Indonesia burned more coal than any other year, putting the country on track to become one of the largest carbon emitters from fossil fuel in the world. Therefore, to mitigate global warming, Indonesia has a plan to accelerate the retirement of its existing coal-fired power plants and to develop renewable energy. Last year, a coalition of industrialized nations led by the U.S. and Japan signed a deal with Indonesia to help the country in its energy transition. Under the deal, called the Just Energy Transition Partnerships (JETP), the G7 group of industrialized countries, plus Denmark and Norway as well as private financial institutions, pledged to channel $20 billion to Indonesia. Indonesia is the second country in the world to have the JETP deal after South Africa. Therefore, analysts hope the Southeast Asian country could be a model to get other developing countries off coal power. Before the money can start pouring in, Indonesia needs to come up with a plan for how it will spend the $20 billion. In February, the Indonesian government established a secretariat to formulate the document, called the comprehensive investment and policy plan. The JETP secretariat was scheduled to finish drafting the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/08/captive-coal-fired-power-plants-hinder-indonesia-energy-transition-deal/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-272709</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Have coal, will use it: Indonesia’s climate stance raises questions</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/08/have-coal-will-use-it-indonesias-climate-stance-raises-questions/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 Aug 2023 16:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
						</dc:creator>
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						<![CDATA[Hayat Indriyatno]]>
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							<![CDATA[carbon, Carbon Emissions, Climate, Climate Change, Coal, Energy, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Fossils, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Politics, and Renewable Energy]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Recent statements by top Indonesian officials have climate activists questioning the country’s commitment to transitioning away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy. At an event in Jakarta on July 21, Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati pushed back against calls by the international community for Indonesia to end its reliance on coal by [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Recent statements by top Indonesian officials have climate activists questioning the country’s commitment to transitioning away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy. At an event in Jakarta on July 21, Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati pushed back against calls by the international community for Indonesia to end its reliance on coal by retiring its coal-fired power plants. &#8220;If we have coal, then we should use it. European countries, the U.S., and even Japan still use coal. Why, when Indonesia wants to use [coal], does it become an issue?&#8221; she said. That same week, at an energy summit of leaders of the G20 economies in India, Indonesia was among the countries that objected to a proposed road map to phase out the use of fossil fuels without the capture of emissions in the global energy mix. Yudo Dwinanda Priaadi, an assistant to the energy minister, said Indonesia had objected because the country planned to use abatement and removal technologies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of coal. He told The Jakarta Post that installing carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology at existing coal plants is the “easiest thing to do” to cut emissions. The push against phasing out fossil fuels is reportedly led by Saudi Arabia, the world’s second-largest oil producer. Saudi Arabia has opposed more ambitious language, particularly in reference to the phaseout of fossil fuels, in U.N. climate negotiations. The G20 meeting not only failed to come into an agreement on speeding up the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/08/have-coal-will-use-it-indonesias-climate-stance-raises-questions/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Indonesia’s coal burning hits record high — and ‘green’ nickel is largely why</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/07/indonesias-coal-burning-hits-record-high-and-green-nickel-is-largely-why/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Jul 2023 10:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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						<![CDATA[Hayat Indriyatno]]>
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							<![CDATA[Carbon Emissions, charcoal, Climate, Climate Change, Coal, Energy, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Fossils, Global Warming, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Mining, and Politics]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Indonesia burned more coal in 2022 than any other year, a preliminary analysis shows, putting the country on track to become one of the largest carbon emitters from fossil fuel in the world. Data from the Indonesian Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources showed that coal consumption amounted to 745.72 million barrels of [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Indonesia burned more coal in 2022 than any other year, a preliminary analysis shows, putting the country on track to become one of the largest carbon emitters from fossil fuel in the world. Data from the Indonesian Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources showed that coal consumption amounted to 745.72 million barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) in 2022, a 33% increase from 558.78 million BOE in 2021. The data shows the country’s coal consumption to be the highest ever by a very large margin. Indonesia&#8217;s primary energy supply by source in 2022. Image courtesy of Robbie Andrew. Using this data, researchers from the Global Carbon Project, an organization that seeks to quantify global greenhouse gas emissions and their sources, measured the emissions that came from that increase. Coupled with other increases in fossil fuel consumption, such as oil (12%) and gas (1.2%), these increases drove Indonesia’s total carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emissions from fossil fuels to grow by 20.3%, according to Robbie Andrew, a member of the Global Carbon Project and senior researcher at the Norway-based CICERO Centre for International Climate Research. Indonesia&#8217;s annual fossil CO2e emissions in 2022. Image courtesy of Robbie Andrew. That put Indonesia’s total CO2e emissions from burning fossil fuels at 619 million metric tons, with Andrew describing both the growth in coal consumption and emissions as “strong” and “massive.” “None of the world’s top-ten largest emitters has seen growth of 20% in the last 15 years,” Andrew told Mongabay. In 2021, Indonesia’s emissions&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/07/indonesias-coal-burning-hits-record-high-and-green-nickel-is-largely-why/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Indonesian coal giant Adaro’s ‘sustainable’ smelter slammed as ‘greenwashing’</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/indonesian-coal-giant-adaros-sustainable-smelter-slammed-as-greenwashing/</link>
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					<pubDate>15 Jun 2023 10:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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						<![CDATA[Hayat Indriyatno]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, Kalimantan, North Kalimantan, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Alternative Energy, Business, Carbon Emissions, Climate, Climate Change, Coal, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Corporations, Electric Cars, Emission Reduction, Energy, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Fossils, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Industry, Mining, and Renewable Energy]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Indonesia’s largest coal miner, PT Adaro Energy, faces claims of greenwashing over its plan to build coal-fired power plants on the island of Borneo to provide electricity for its aluminum smelter there. At its annual shareholders’ meeting in Jakarta on May 11, two shareholders protested against the planned captive power plants, known as [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Indonesia’s largest coal miner, PT Adaro Energy, faces claims of greenwashing over its plan to build coal-fired power plants on the island of Borneo to provide electricity for its aluminum smelter there. At its annual shareholders’ meeting in Jakarta on May 11, two shareholders protested against the planned captive power plants, known as such because they’re designed specifically to supply certain industries and not to feed into the grid. “Stop the development of new coal plants. One billion people will be threatened by the climate crisis due to coal plants,” one of the shareholders shouted while being escorted out of the meeting. A shareholder of Indonesia&#8217;s largest coal miner Adaro Energy protests against the company&#8217;s plan to build coal-fired power plants to supply electricity to its aluminum smelter in North Kalimantan. Image courtesy of Greenpeace Indonesia. The plants, with a combined capacity of 2.2 gigawatts, will supply Adaro’s aluminum smelter in an industrial park, itself branded as “green,” in North Kalimantan province. The park is being touted, once completed, as the largest of its kind in the world, home to Indonesia’s first electric vehicle battery production, alongside petrochemical and aluminum industries. The smelter project, estimated to cost $2 billion, has entered the preconstruction phase and is expected to start commercial operation in 2025. Once running at full capacity in 2029, it will be able to produce 1.5 million metric tons of aluminum a year, the company says. Aluminum is used in the lithium nickel-cobalt-aluminum oxide (NCA) cathodes that&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/indonesian-coal-giant-adaros-sustainable-smelter-slammed-as-greenwashing/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>U.S. firm quits Indonesian gasification project in major blow to coal ambitions</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/04/u-s-firm-quits-indonesian-gasification-project-in-major-blow-to-coal-ambitions/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Apr 2023 12:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Nithin Coca]]>
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						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<![CDATA[Banking, Business, Carbon Emissions, charcoal, Climate, Climate Change, climate finance, Coal, Emission Reduction, Energy, Environment, Finance, Fossil Fuels, Fossils, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Industry, and Politics]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indonesia&#8217;s plans to develop a coal gasification industry have been thrown into doubt following the withdrawal of a major foreign investor. During an investor call in late March, U.S.-based Air Products and Chemicals, a leading provider of coal gasification technology, confirmed it had withdrawn from all of its projects in Indonesia, including a planned facility [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indonesia&#8217;s plans to develop a coal gasification industry have been thrown into doubt following the withdrawal of a major foreign investor. During an investor call in late March, U.S.-based Air Products and Chemicals, a leading provider of coal gasification technology, confirmed it had withdrawn from all of its projects in Indonesia, including a planned facility in Bengalon, East Kalimantan province, and a $2.3 billion plant in Muara Enim, South Sumatra province, that broke ground in early 2022. The news, less than a year and a half after the investment deals were signed, is a stunning setback to the country’s ambitious plans to turn coal into dimethyl ether (DME) and create new market demand for domestically mined coal. “The timing was quite surprising,” said Andri Prasetiyo, program manager at Trend Asia, an Indonesian nonprofit that advocates for accelerating the transition to clean energy. “The Indonesia government claimed the project was ongoing, as a national strategic project.” Area cleared for coal mining in Borneo, East Kalimantan. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay. Coal gasification is a century-old technology in which coal is converted into a gas that can then be used for industrial or transportation purposes. DME made from Indonesia’s coal-to-gas plants would, in theory, be used as an alternative fuel in industrial, chemical or transportation applications, replacing imported liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). The economics of coal gasification in Indonesia have been challenging since the beginning, and rising inflation has only made matters worse, said Ghee Peh, an energy finance analyst at the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/04/u-s-firm-quits-indonesian-gasification-project-in-major-blow-to-coal-ambitions/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Plan to mine ‘clean energy’ metals in Colombian Amazon splits communities</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/03/plan-to-mine-clean-energy-metals-in-colombian-amazon-splits-communities/</link>
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					<pubDate>22 Mar 2023 21:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Natalia Torres Garzón]]>
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						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Covering Climate Now, Global Commodities, and Land rights and extractives]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Andes, Colombia, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, carbon, Carbon Emissions, Clean Energy, Climate, Climate Change, Conservation, Copper, Energy, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Fossils, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Land Rights, Land Use Change, Mining, Politics, and Renewable Energy]]>
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							<![CDATA[MOCOA, Colombia — “We are experiencing a profound crisis, not only in the Amazon but throughout humanity,” said Campo Elías de la Cruz, a Catholic priest and environmental activist who opposes mining activity in Colombia’s Putumayo region. “Over these three centuries, the umbilical cord of Mother Earth has been cut. Thousands of rubber trees were [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[MOCOA, Colombia — “We are experiencing a profound crisis, not only in the Amazon but throughout humanity,” said Campo Elías de la Cruz, a Catholic priest and environmental activist who opposes mining activity in Colombia’s Putumayo region. “Over these three centuries, the umbilical cord of Mother Earth has been cut. Thousands of rubber trees were cut down alongside 70,000 Indigenous people who died during the exploitation of rubber, timber, quinine and oil. And today, in the 21st century, they tell us they are taking the copper from Mother Earth.” Campo Elias is referring to the rubber, quinine and timber rush that happened in the Amazon region during colonization. And also of current plans to explore and mine for copper and molybdenum to feed clean energy technologies in what could be one of the largest deposits of these minerals on the continent and in the world. In this richly biodiverse region, where the cool mountains of the Andes meet the Amazon Rainforest, opinions are divided and emotions are high among communities over the environmental and social costs of hosting this green mining project and the jobs it promises to bring. A monkey known as the Andean saddle-back tamarin (Leontocebus fuscicollis), is seen in the Mocoa area. The Putumayo region is a rich area in biodiversity with more than 150 animal species. Image by Antonio Cascio for Mongabay. In 2018, Canadian multinational Libero Copper acquired four mining titles to explore for and exploit minerals such as copper and molybdenum across more than&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/03/plan-to-mine-clean-energy-metals-in-colombian-amazon-splits-communities/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Indonesia aims to use gas in foreign-funded energy transition; critics cry foul</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/03/indonesia-aims-to-use-gas-in-foreign-funded-energy-transition-critics-cry-foul/</link>
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					<pubDate>09 Mar 2023 08:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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						<![CDATA[Karen Coates]]>
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							<![CDATA[Alternative Energy, Carbon Emissions, charcoal, Climate, Climate Change, climate finance, Coal, Emission Reduction, Energy, Environment, Finance, Fossil Fuels, Fossils, Funding, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Methane, Natural Gas, Politics, Pollution, and Renewable Energy]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Activists have lambasted the Indonesian government’s proposal to include gas in its clean energy transition program funded by industrialized countries. They said the inclusion of gas-fired power plants in Indonesia’s transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy would derail the country’s bid to lower its emissions to contribute to capping global warming at [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Activists have lambasted the Indonesian government’s proposal to include gas in its clean energy transition program funded by industrialized countries. They said the inclusion of gas-fired power plants in Indonesia’s transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy would derail the country’s bid to lower its emissions to contribute to capping global warming at 1.5° Celsius (2.7° Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels. Indonesia was the world’s fifth-largest greenhouse gas emitter in 2019, behind only China, the U.S., India and the EU as a whole. Its emissions largely come from deforestation and burning of coal, with the latter generating 61% of the country’s electricity. Emissions from Indonesia’s power sector are projected to keep increasing as the country grows its economy, the largest in Southeast Asia and 16th largest in the world by nominal GDP. As a part of its energy transition program to lower emissions from the power sector, the government plans to convert existing diesel fuel-fired power plants into gas-fired ones. Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Arifin Tasrif argued that it’s the fastest way to curb emissions, as gas-fired power plants emit fewer emissions compared with diesel. &#8220;This is the fastest way to reduce emissions and costs, from diesel fuel-fired to gas-fired,&#8221; he said on Feb. 17. There are currently 5,200 diesel power plants in 2,130 locations throughout Indonesia. The plan is to convert at least 52 diesel plants into gas plants. At the initial stage of the plan, 33 diesel plants will be converted first. The oil and gas director-general at the energy ministry,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/03/indonesia-aims-to-use-gas-in-foreign-funded-energy-transition-critics-cry-foul/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Indonesia to build coal plants despite $20b deal on clean energy transition</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/11/indonesia-to-build-coal-plants-despite-20b-deal-on-clean-energy-transition/</link>
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					<pubDate>22 Nov 2022 16:59:31 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<![CDATA[Carbon Emissions, charcoal, Climate, Climate Change, climate finance, Coal, Emission Reduction, Energy, Environment, Finance, Fossil Fuels, Fossils, Funding, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Politics, and Renewable Energy]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Indonesia will continue building new coal-fired power plants, despite a recent $20 billion deal with the G7 group of industrialized countries to help it transition to clean energy. Activists say this puts the deal, known as the Just Energy Transition Partnership and signed at the G20 summit that Indonesia hosted earlier this month, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Indonesia will continue building new coal-fired power plants, despite a recent $20 billion deal with the G7 group of industrialized countries to help it transition to clean energy. Activists say this puts the deal, known as the Just Energy Transition Partnership and signed at the G20 summit that Indonesia hosted earlier this month, on the brink of collapse before it even takes off. “JETP in Indonesia has a huge risk of failure in its attempt to decarbonize [Indonesia’s] electricity system,” said Andri Prasetiyo, a researcher at Trend Asia, a Jakarta-based nonprofit that advocates for clean energy transition. “This is because the government is still sending a mixed signal in energy transition by not setting a clear deadline on stopping the construction of new coal plants.” Under the deal — the single largest climate finance partnership to date — Indonesia will aim to cap its emissions from the power sector by 2030, faster than the initial target of 2037, and to generate 34% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030. But the Indonesian government will still allow the construction of new coal plants, with a combined capacity of 13 gigawatts, that have already been tendered out. The plan is laid out in the country’s 10-year energy plan for 2021-2030. Crucially, a 2022 regulation issued by President Joko Widodo greenlights the construction of what’s known as captive coal plants, which are built specifically to supply certain industries and not to feed into the grid. In a joint statement, Indonesia and its&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/11/indonesia-to-build-coal-plants-despite-20b-deal-on-clean-energy-transition/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Indonesia seals $20 billion deal with G7 to speed up clean energy transition</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/11/indonesia-seals-20-billion-deal-with-g7-to-speed-up-clean-energy-transition/</link>
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					<pubDate>16 Nov 2022 14:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<![CDATA[Carbon Emissions, Climate, Climate Change, climate finance, Coal, Emission Reduction, Energy, Environment, Finance, Fossil Fuels, Fossils, Funding, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Politics, and Renewable Energy]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Indonesia has struck a historic deal with the G7 group of industrialized countries on a $20 billion financing package to help it speed up its transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy. The Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) will see the G7 plus Denmark and Norway deliver the funding to Indonesia over the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Indonesia has struck a historic deal with the G7 group of industrialized countries on a $20 billion financing package to help it speed up its transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy. The Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) will see the G7 plus Denmark and Norway deliver the funding to Indonesia over the next three to five years. “If you look at the investment values that are brought together under the terms of this partnership, it is arguably the single largest country-specific climate investment partnership ever,” John Morton, counselor to the U.S. treasury secretary, said at a press conference at the G20 summit taking place this week on the Indonesian island of Bali. The funding will go toward developing renewable energy, such as solar and geothermal, and phasing out fossil fuels, including shutting down coal-fired power plants, which currently account for the majority of Indonesia’s energy mix. “This partnership will generate valuable lessons for the global community and can be replicated in other countries to help meet our shared climate goals through concrete collaborative actions,” Indonesian President Joko Widodo said at the announcement of the partnership. Indonesia was the world’s fifth-largest greenhouse gas emitter in 2019, behind only China, the U.S., India and the EU as a whole. Its emissions largely come from deforestation and burning of coal, with the latter generating 61% of the country’s electricity. Emissions from Indonesia’s power sector are projected to keep increasing as the country grows its economy, the largest in Southeast Asia&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/11/indonesia-seals-20-billion-deal-with-g7-to-speed-up-clean-energy-transition/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Indonesian banks prop up coal industry increasingly shunned by outside lenders</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/10/indonesian-banks-prop-up-coal-industry-increasingly-shunned-by-outside-lenders/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 Oct 2022 14:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Banking, Carbon Emissions, charcoal, Climate, Climate Change, climate finance, Coal, Emission Reduction, Energy, Environment, Finance, Fossil Fuels, Fossils, and Greenhouse Gas Emissions]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Indonesia&#8217;s four largest banks handed out loans totaling $3.5 billion of direct loans to the coal industry from 2015-2021, despite their stated commitments to sustainable financial practices, a new report shows. The report by a coalition of civil society groups looked at loans made by BNI, BRI and Bank Mandiri, all state-owned lenders, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Indonesia&#8217;s four largest banks handed out loans totaling $3.5 billion of direct loans to the coal industry from 2015-2021, despite their stated commitments to sustainable financial practices, a new report shows. The report by a coalition of civil society groups looked at loans made by BNI, BRI and Bank Mandiri, all state-owned lenders, and BCA, the biggest private sector bank in the country. The four banks were pioneers of sustainable financing initiative in Indonesia back in 2018 together with WWF. Under the Indonesia Sustainable Finance Initiative (IKBI), these banks aim to implement sustainable finance practices and integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues into their operations. The initiative also acknowledges the crucial role that financial institutions play in climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts. To look at whether the four banks are walking the talk, the coalition studied the annual reports of the 24 coal companies that are listed on the stock exchange in Indonesia. It found that they received $3.5 billion in direct loans from the four banks since 2015. The biggest lender to the companies studied is Bank Mandiri, which is also the largest bank in Indonesia. It issued $3.19 billion in loans to 10 coal companies between 2015 and 2021. Yet Bank Mandiri stated in its 2020 annual report that it no longer funds businesses or projects that harm the environment. And in its 2021 sustainability report, it said it’s moving towards carbon neutrality through strengthening ecosystems and green taxonomy. But the same sustainability report&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/10/indonesian-banks-prop-up-coal-industry-increasingly-shunned-by-outside-lenders/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Giant kangaroo fossil points to previously unknown species in New Guinea</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/07/giant-kangaroo-fossil-points-to-previously-unknown-species-in-new-guinea/</link>
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					<pubDate>27 Jul 2022 18:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jim Tan]]>
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						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<![CDATA[Oceania and Papua New Guinea]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Archeology, Biodiversity, Environment, Extinction, Fossils, Islands, Marsupials, New Discovery, Rainforests, Research, Science, and Species Discovery]]>
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							<![CDATA[A previously unknown genus of primitive giant kangaroo that once roamed the rainforests of New Guinea has been described by a team of paleontologists from Flinders University in Australia. The researchers say they hope the findings, published in June, will reenergize the field of paleontological research on New Guinea, helping to uncover the island&#8217;s history [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A previously unknown genus of primitive giant kangaroo that once roamed the rainforests of New Guinea has been described by a team of paleontologists from Flinders University in Australia. The researchers say they hope the findings, published in June, will reenergize the field of paleontological research on New Guinea, helping to uncover the island&#8217;s history and thus better understand its diverse and often unique modern-day flora and fauna. The chance discovery came about as lead author Isaac Kerr, a Ph.D. candidate at Flinders University, was reexamining a fossilized jawbone thought to belong to a giant kangaroo from the extinct genus Protemnodon, a cousin to the modern-day eastern gray and red kangaroos (Macropus giganteus and Macropus rufus) found in Australia and the focus of Kerr’s research. On closer examination, distinct differences to Protemnodon in the molar teeth led the research team to believe they were in fact looking at a previously undiscovered genus most likely unique to New Guinea. Flinders University palaeontology researcher Isaac Kerr with an Australian kangaroo jaw bone, and an Australian megafauna fossil jaw used in the latest Royal Society study. Image courtesy of Flinders University. The jawbone was originally found during an expedition led by Mary Jane Mountain in the 1970s at an archaeological site in central Papua New Guinea called the Nombe Rockshelter. Kerr and his colleagues have named the new genus Nombe after the site and the type species will be called Nombe nombe. “The New Guinean fauna is strange and unique, and the fossil&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/07/giant-kangaroo-fossil-points-to-previously-unknown-species-in-new-guinea/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Planned coal plants fizzle as Japan ends financing in Indonesia, Bangladesh</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/06/planned-coal-plants-fizzle-as-japan-ends-financing-in-indonesia-bangladesh/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 Jun 2022 11:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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						<![CDATA[Hayat Indriyatno]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Bangladesh, East Asia, Indonesia, Japan, Java, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and West Java]]>
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							<![CDATA[Banking, charcoal, Climate, Climate Change, climate finance, Coal, Energy, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Fossils, Funding, and Politics]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Major coal-fired power plant projects in Indonesia and Bangladesh have effectively been cancelled after the Japanese government, their main funder, recently announced it would stop providing loans to build such plants in the two countries. For Indonesia in particular, the move also means the loss of the top three foreign funders of coal [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Major coal-fired power plant projects in Indonesia and Bangladesh have effectively been cancelled after the Japanese government, their main funder, recently announced it would stop providing loans to build such plants in the two countries. For Indonesia in particular, the move also means the loss of the top three foreign funders of coal plants in the country, after similar decisions by China and South Korea. The projects affected by Japan’s decision are the Matarbari 2 coal expansion project in Bangladesh and a plan to build two additional 1,000-megawatt coal-fired units at the Indramayu coal plant in Indonesia. Both Indonesia and Bangladesh had been conducting surveys for the projects with Japan’s backing, but construction hasn’t commenced for either project. On June 22, the Japanese Foreign Ministry announced at a press conference that Tokyo has decided to withdraw financing for both projects. In light of the announcement, Bangladesh’s energy minister, Nasrul Hamid, said the Matarbari 2 project had been scrapped. &#8220;We have already cancelled the plan of Matarbari phase-2,” he told local media. “We plan to build an LNG-based power plant. The plant will be interconnected with the LNG [liquified natural gas] terminal.” In 2021, the Bangladeshi government also canceled plans to build 10 coal power plants, which were expected to pull in about $10 billion in investments. In Indonesia, the $4billion Indramayu project is also likely to be scrapped, the government has indicated. Wanhar, director of electricity program supervision at the country’s energy ministry, said the Indramayu project is&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/06/planned-coal-plants-fizzle-as-japan-ends-financing-in-indonesia-bangladesh/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>&#8216;Strange&#8217; giraffoid fossil shows giraffes evolved long necks to win mates: study</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/06/strange-giraffoid-fossil-shows-giraffes-evolved-long-necks-to-win-mates-study/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Jun 2022 17:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Malavika Vyawahare]]>
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						<![CDATA[Malavikavyawahare]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[China]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Biology, Evolution, Fossils, Giraffes, Research, Science, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Scientists have puzzled over the distinctive form of giraffes at least since Charles Darwin and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (figuratively) butted heads over how the towering ungulates got their long necks. The Darwinian theory still prevails, but which of the two processes —natural selection or sexual selection—plays a more important role still divides evolutionary biologists. A new [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Scientists have puzzled over the distinctive form of giraffes at least since Charles Darwin and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (figuratively) butted heads over how the towering ungulates got their long necks. The Darwinian theory still prevails, but which of the two processes —natural selection or sexual selection—plays a more important role still divides evolutionary biologists. A new study led by scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences published in the journal Science adds weight to the sexual selection hypothesis. The discovery of the fossil of Discokeryx xiezhi, an ancient cousin of present-day giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis) that roamed the earth around 17 million years ago, suggests long necks win giraffe mating wars. “Their simple message is that sexual selection played a big role in one of the ancestors of the present-day giraffe, and thus it opens the door for other members of this diverse lineage to show sexually selected necks and heads,” said Rob Simmons, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Giraffes are found only in east and southern Africa. Simmons, along with Lue Scheepers, put forward the sexual selection hypothesis back in 1996. The leading explanation at that time was straightforward: long necks allow giraffes to feed on tall trees and outcompete other browsers. It improves the animal’s chances of survival, so the trait is passed on to future generations. But, certain characteristics also make males more attractive to females and ensure greater reproductive success. In giraffes, the reasoning goes,  longer necks were more efficient in&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/06/strange-giraffoid-fossil-shows-giraffes-evolved-long-necks-to-win-mates-study/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Fossil evidence confirms persistence of prehistoric forests in Brunei</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/05/fossil-evidence-confirms-persistence-of-prehistoric-forests-in-brunei/</link>
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					<pubDate>31 May 2022 05:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[global forests]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Brunei, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Conservation, Endangered Species, Environment, Forests, Fossils, History, Islands, Old Growth Forests, Primary Forests, Rainforests, Research, Science, Threats To Rainforests, Trees, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[On a breezeless, sunbaked beach in Borneo, one of the biggest challenges paleobotanist Peter Wilf faced in his team’s hunt for plant fossils was getting used to a new set of tools. The damp soil they were probing for ancient plant detritus had never fully formed into stone, so it crumbled with all but the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[On a breezeless, sunbaked beach in Borneo, one of the biggest challenges paleobotanist Peter Wilf faced in his team’s hunt for plant fossils was getting used to a new set of tools. The damp soil they were probing for ancient plant detritus had never fully formed into stone, so it crumbled with all but the most delicate touch. They found they were doing well if they could get a slice 30 centimeters (12 inches) across — nothing like the 2-meter (6.5-foot) hunks of rock Wilf was used to carving out of fossil beds in Argentina. And he had to work with a simple penknife, swapping out the gas-powered drill or even the backhoe that’s part of a paleontologist’s kit in places like the U.S. state of Wyoming. “You can almost dig the fossils out by hand,” said J.W. Ferry Slik, a botanist at Brunei Darussalam University and one of Wilf’s collaborators. It wasn’t easy, but the team extracted fossilized leaves and other plant matter from two main sites in Brunei, which sits on the west coast of Borneo. The process to dry them out and carefully pack, permit and ship them in suitcases from Brunei to the U.S. was painstaking, and it took months. But in the end, the evidence the researchers unearthed revealed that the prehistoric forests on the island at least 4 million years ago looked pretty similar to what exists there today. A fragment fossil of an enormous dipterocarp leaf (estimated size 160 square centimeters, or 25&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/05/fossil-evidence-confirms-persistence-of-prehistoric-forests-in-brunei/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Banks bet big on coal in Indonesia, bucking global shift away from fossil fuel</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/05/banks-bet-big-on-coal-in-indonesia-bucking-global-shift-away-from-fossil-fuel/</link>
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					<pubDate>12 May 2022 09:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Hayat Indriyatno]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, Kalimantan, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Banking, Business, Climate Change, climate finance, Coal, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporations, Energy, Environment, Finance, Fossil Fuels, Fossils, Mining, and Rainforests]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — A surge in coal prices is driving a wave of bank loans to miners in Indonesia, the world&#8217;s fifth-largest coal producer and top exporter. By continuing to finance the fossil fuel industry, banks like Citigroup, BNP Paribas and Standard Chartered are making it harder for Indonesia to transition to clean, renewable energy, analysts [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — A surge in coal prices is driving a wave of bank loans to miners in Indonesia, the world&#8217;s fifth-largest coal producer and top exporter. By continuing to finance the fossil fuel industry, banks like Citigroup, BNP Paribas and Standard Chartered are making it harder for Indonesia to transition to clean, renewable energy, analysts say. “Now that there’s a surge in commodity prices, banks are rushing to channel loans to mining companies [to procure] heavy equipment or capital,” Bhima Yudhistira Adinegara, director of the Center of Economic and Law Studies (CELIOS), a Jakarta-based think tank, said in a recent online press conference. Data from Indonesia’s financial regulator, the OJK, show that lenders channeled 26.83% more money to the country’s mining industry in January 2022 compared to the same period in 2021. The increase is much higher than the year-on-year growth in overall loans of 5.79%. It comes as global coal prices are hitting record highs, more than $400 per metric ton, as a result of global uncertainty over energy supplies due to the Ukraine conflict and sanctions on Russia, which accounts for around 20% of global thermal coal exports. Between 2016 and 2021, about $16 billion in credit went to mining companies in Southeast Asia, according to data from finance monitoring platform Forests &amp; Finance. The top five lenders identified in the data set are Citigroup, BNP Paribas, SMBC Group, MUFG, and Standard Chartered. In Indonesia, the boom in lending is especially pronounced in the province of East Kalimantan,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/05/banks-bet-big-on-coal-in-indonesia-bucking-global-shift-away-from-fossil-fuel/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Indonesia’s new plan for coal: It pollutes land and air, so why not the sea too?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/12/indonesias-new-plan-for-coal-it-pollutes-land-and-air-so-why-not-the-sea-too/</link>
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					<pubDate>01 Dec 2021 15:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Basten Gokkon]]>
						</dc:creator>
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						<![CDATA[Basten Gokkon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, East Java, Indonesia, Java, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Climate, Climate Change, Coal, Conservation, Energy, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Fossils, Governance, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and Politics]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Having already declared coal ash non-hazardous waste, the Indonesian government now wants to turn it into bricks that will be used for coral transplantation projects, prompting an outcry from environmental advocates. The Indonesian Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries announced on Nov. 19 a deal with coal power plant operator PT Pembangkitan Jawa [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Having already declared coal ash non-hazardous waste, the Indonesian government now wants to turn it into bricks that will be used for coral transplantation projects, prompting an outcry from environmental advocates. The Indonesian Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries announced on Nov. 19 a deal with coal power plant operator PT Pembangkitan Jawa Bali Paiton to produce the bricks using fly ash and bottom ash, or FABA, left over from burning coal. “We see the potential use of FABA in coastal and marine areas as coral transplantation media, tetrapods, and fishers’ houses,” Pamuji Lestari, the ministry’s acting head of marine zoning, said in a statement. She added her office would ensure that the development of these ash bricks would adhere to environmental standards and regulations. Earlier this year, the government removed FABA from its list of hazardous waste, in response to lobbying efforts by industry groups that want to be allowed to sell coal ash to the construction industry. The Pacitan coal-fired power plant in Java. Image by Nuswantoro/Mongabay-Indonesia. That earlier regulation was in turn a derivative of the so-called omnibus law on job creation — a controversial package of deregulation measures passed by parliament in October 2020 that activists warned would serve the interests of the mining and “dirty energy” industries. Environmentalists had lambasted the declaration of FABA as non-hazardous, pointing out that coal waste is known to be highly toxic to the environment and public health because it contains chemical compounds such as arsenic, lead, mercury&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/12/indonesias-new-plan-for-coal-it-pollutes-land-and-air-so-why-not-the-sea-too/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>COP26 cop-out? Indonesia’s clean energy pledge keeps coal front and center</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/11/cop26-cop-out-indonesias-clean-energy-pledge-keeps-coal-front-and-center/</link>
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					<pubDate>10 Nov 2021 13:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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						<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[carbon, Carbon Emissions, charcoal, Climate, Climate Change, Coal, Energy, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Fossils, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Mining, Politics, and Renewable Energy]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Indonesia has signed another seemingly landmark pledge at the COP26 climate summit underway in Glasgow, this time to phase out its use of coal, the dominant source in its energy mix, by the 2040s. But as with the first pledge it made at COP26 — to end deforestation by 2030, which it then [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Indonesia has signed another seemingly landmark pledge at the COP26 climate summit underway in Glasgow, this time to phase out its use of coal, the dominant source in its energy mix, by the 2040s. But as with the first pledge it made at COP26 — to end deforestation by 2030, which it then immediately backpedaled from — the details of the coal pledge suggest no actual intent on moving away from the highly polluting fossil fuel in real terms, activists say. The headline figure that Indonesia is touting under this new agreement on a clean energy transition, signed Nov. 4 by 23 countries, is the retirement of 9.2 gigawatts of coal-fired power plants by 2030. This represents a quarter of its total generating capacity from coal, and is more ambitious than its initial plan to decommission 1.1 GW of coal power by 2030. But such a reduction is meaningless when the country is building or planning to build 13.8 GW of new coal plants during this same period, says Adila Isfandiari, a senior climate and energy researcher at Greenpeace Indonesia. “So it’s useless if we decommission 9.2 gigawatts of coal but then build 13.8 gigawatts of new coal,” Adila told Mongabay. “We won’t be able to increase the capacity of renewable because the space [for new energy] has already been occupied by these new coal plants.” The new coal plants are prescribed in the government’s most recent 10-year electricity procurement plan, also known as the RUPTL. They would&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/11/cop26-cop-out-indonesias-clean-energy-pledge-keeps-coal-front-and-center/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Indonesia’s ‘green’ electricity plan undermines its climate vows, activists say</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/10/indonesias-green-electricity-plan-undermines-its-climate-vows-activists-say/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 Oct 2021 12:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Basten Gokkon]]>
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						<![CDATA[Basten Gokkon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, Java, Southeast Asia, and Sumatra]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Climate, Climate Change, Coal, Conservation, Economics, Energy, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Fossils, Funding, Governance, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Politics, and Renewable Energy]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Indonesia’s new 10-year plan for electricity generation maintains the country’s heavy reliance on coal and will hinder stated efforts to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, experts say. The plan, known as the RUPTL, calls for adding 40.6 gigawatts (GW) of electricity capacity nationwide between 2021 and 2030, a third of which, 13.8 GW, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Indonesia’s new 10-year plan for electricity generation maintains the country’s heavy reliance on coal and will hinder stated efforts to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, experts say. The plan, known as the RUPTL, calls for adding 40.6 gigawatts (GW) of electricity capacity nationwide between 2021 and 2030, a third of which, 13.8 GW, will come from burning coal. The government and the plan’s designer, state-owned electricity utility PLN, have cdescribed the plan as a “Green RUPTL,” on the basis that just over half of the additional capacity, or 20.9 GW, will come from “new and renewable” energy sources. The government’s definition of the latter includes commonly accepted forms of renewable energy, such as solar and wind, but also more questionable sources, such as gasified coal, biomass (burning wood pellets) and nuclear. The RUPTL is part of the Indonesian government’s effort to boost the overall share of renewables in the national energy mix to 23% by 2025 and achieve its Paris Agreement commitment of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 29% by 2030. It also has a longer-term plan to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its latest report has set a global target for the international community to shut down 80% of existing coal plants and have 50% of renewables in the energy mix by 2030. A coal barge being towed down the Mahakam River in Samarinda, in Indonesian Borneo. Image by Kemal Jufri/Greenpeace. Clean energy activists in Indonesia say the new RUPTL&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/10/indonesias-green-electricity-plan-undermines-its-climate-vows-activists-say/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Indonesia still clinging to coal despite phaseout pledge, new plan shows</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/indonesia-still-clinging-to-coal-despite-phaseout-pledge-new-plan-shows/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Sep 2021 13:45:01 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Experts have panned Indonesia’s vision for achieving net-zero carbon dioxide emissions, which consists of continuing to burn coal while hoping that untested carbon capture technology will stop the greenhouse gas from reaching the atmosphere. The government’s “Long-term Strategy on Low Carbon and Climate Resilience 2050” says coal-fired power plants will still generate a [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Experts have panned Indonesia’s vision for achieving net-zero carbon dioxide emissions, which consists of continuing to burn coal while hoping that untested carbon capture technology will stop the greenhouse gas from reaching the atmosphere. The government’s “Long-term Strategy on Low Carbon and Climate Resilience 2050” says coal-fired power plants will still generate a large percentage of the country’s electricity over the next three decades, although it does bring forward the date for achieving carbon neutrality to 2060, a decade earlier than previously announced. To do so, however, it plans to fit three-quarters of all coal-fired power plants with carbon capture and storage (CCS) and carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) technologies. Experts, however, have questioned the feasibility of such a plan, saying the technology is still prohibitively expensive and largely unproven at such a scale. “Such technology is still under development despite years of technological investments, and thus far is still hampered by its high cost,” the Jakarta-based Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) said in a recent report. And it’s also unclear if the cost of carbon capture could ever compete with the cost of renewable energy, which keeps declining as more countries develop it, the think tank said. “With the deflationary cost of renewable energy, it remains to be seen whether CCS could ever reach its way to economically operate in countries like Indonesia which hinges on low-cost electricity,” the IEEFA said. At $4,200 per kilowatt of electricity, the capital expenditure for carbon capture&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/indonesia-still-clinging-to-coal-despite-phaseout-pledge-new-plan-shows/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Indonesia’s coal phaseout is just more business as usual, report says</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/indonesias-coal-phaseout-is-just-more-business-as-usual-report-says/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Aug 2021 13:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Indonesia’s plan to phase out coal is a mere rebranding of an existing timeline to decommission aging plants, with no meaningful shift toward actually quitting the fossil fuel, a new report says. State-owned utility PLN announced in May that it would start shutting down coal-fired power plants and phasing them all out by [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Indonesia’s plan to phase out coal is a mere rebranding of an existing timeline to decommission aging plants, with no meaningful shift toward actually quitting the fossil fuel, a new report says. State-owned utility PLN announced in May that it would start shutting down coal-fired power plants and phasing them all out by 2055, amounting to 50 gigawatts of capacity, with a view to net-zero carbon emissions by 2060. But on closer scrutiny, there’s no early retirement of coal plants in sight and more than 40 new plants are still expected to be built, according to the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), a Jakarta-based think tank. A review of the announced numbers and the existing data and planning documents show that the plant retirement and net-zero emissions plans, though sounding “very promising” and looking like “a real breakthrough,” are “simply putting a new face on old plans,” the IEEFA says in a report. This sends a mixed signal to the world and to investors, which subsequently could deter investment in clean energy, something the country badly needs in order to transition away from dirty coal to renewable energy, experts warn. “It looked like the net-zero [emissions] policy is progressive, but if you dissect it, the content doesn’t give a strong enough signal that this is a very progressive policy,” said Andri Prasetiyo, a researcher at Trend Asia, an NGO that focuses on clean energy transition. Mongabay reached out to PLN for comment but did not&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/indonesias-coal-phaseout-is-just-more-business-as-usual-report-says/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Coal phase-out plan gets pushback in power-hungry Indonesia</title>
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					<pubDate>16 Jun 2021 14:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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							<![CDATA[Air Pollution, Carbon Emissions, charcoal, Clean Energy, Climate, Climate Change, Coal, Energy, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Fossils, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Politics, Pollution, Renewable Energy, and Solar Power]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Officials have cast doubts on a government plan that would somehow see Indonesia phase out all its coal-fired power plants while at the same time build more than a hundred new ones, while activists have welcomed the move. A key criticism of the plan is what to do with the 117 under-construction or [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Officials have cast doubts on a government plan that would somehow see Indonesia phase out all its coal-fired power plants while at the same time build more than a hundred new ones, while activists have welcomed the move. A key criticism of the plan is what to do with the 117 under-construction or planned coal plants, with a combined capacity of 21 gigawatts, that will come online over the next few years. The plan by state-owned utility PLN calls for retiring all coal plants by 2055, with new plants and those still under construction to be closed down last. But a top official in the office of the chief investments minister says shutting the new ones down prematurely will be far too costly. “Energy transition needs to be positively beneficial for the country,” Rida Yasser, the minister’s assistant deputy for energy, said in an online event May 28. “So we shouldn’t commit [financial] suicide in order to fix or clean our energy system. We shouldn’t have to incur financial loss to our own country in order to clean our energy.” Coal plants built between 2020 and 2025 would, under PLN’s plan, become “stranded assets” — i.e. fail to provide a return on the money invested in them — which would cost Indonesia $26 billion, according to a new report by the Indonesian think tank the Institute for Essential Services Reform (IESR). Rida also questioned the need to shut down coal plants as an emissions-cutting measure, suggesting that Indonesia&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/06/coal-phase-out-plan-gets-pushback-in-power-hungry-indonesia/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Indonesia to retire coal-fired power plants while also adding more</title>
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					<pubDate>08 Jun 2021 14:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Indonesia says it will begin retiring coal-fired power plants for good — while still continuing to build more than a hundred new ones, in the latest mixed message from one of the last coal-friendly countries in the world. PLN, the state-owned power utility, which has a monopoly on the national grid, announced late [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Indonesia says it will begin retiring coal-fired power plants for good — while still continuing to build more than a hundred new ones, in the latest mixed message from one of the last coal-friendly countries in the world. PLN, the state-owned power utility, which has a monopoly on the national grid, announced late May that it plans to completely abandon coal by 2055. “We are scheduling the retirement of our coal-fired power plants to achieve carbon neutrality in 2060,” PLN deputy CEO Darmawan Prasodjo said in an online event May 28. He said the retirement plan is a directive from President Joko Widodo and has been agreed on by the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources as well as the Coordinating Ministry for Maritime Affairs and Investment. “This is a battle that we can’t lose,” Darmawan said. “The survival of humankind depends on the action that we are taking today.” A day earlier, Luhut Pandjaitan, the coordinating minister for investments, had declared fossil fuels a global “common enemy” during an online investment forum. Luhut himself maintains a stake in a coal mining company. Coal-fired power plant in Indramayu, West Java, Indonesia. Image by Bkusmono/Wikimedia Commons. ‘A contradiction’ In the first stage of its plan, PLN says it will retire three coal and gasified-coal power plants, with a combined capacity of 1.1 gigawatts, by 2030. In the next stage, from 2030 to 2055, it will retire 49 GW of coal power plants. At the same time, the utility and&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/06/indonesia-to-retire-coal-fired-power-plants-while-also-adding-more/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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