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Implementation Check Methodology: a Much Needed Mechanism

Blog22 September 2023109Views 0Likes 0Comments

New York, 21 September 2023 - The global community is urging global leaders to take serious actions to address climate change. During the COP 27 in Egypt, several countries renewed their commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and achieving net zero emission status. However, there are still gaps between commitment and implementation of policy and…

Eight Recommendations of IETD 2023

Press Release20 September 2023191Views 0Likes 0Comments

Jakarta, September 20, 2023 - Transforming the electricity sector with renewable energy development and accelerating the coal-fired power plants requires significant financing. The availability of energy transition financing will help the government, utility companies, and community groups to increase the number of renewable energy projects, thereby further reducing the price of renewable energy generation. The…

Koran Jakarta | G20 Agrees to Triple Renewable Energy Capacity

Media Coverage14 September 2023116Views 0Likes 0Comments

The leaders of the G20 countries, on Saturday (9/9), agreed to triple the global renewable energy capacity by 2030 as a necessity to gradually phase out coal-fired power plants but failed to set a primary climate target. Read more on Koran Jakarta.

Approaching the G20 Summit, Government Needs to be Consistently Calling for and Raising Climate Ambitions

Press Release9 November 2022100Views 0Likes 0Comments

Jakarta, 9 November 2022-The journey of the Indonesian G20 Presidency will end after the G20 summit in November 2022. Therefore, Indonesia needs to show strong attention to climate mitigation efforts, by increasing its commitment to significantly reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The Climate Transparency 2022 report shows Indonesia's power sector which is dominated by fossil…

ISEO 2023 Launch: Indonesia Needs Clear Targets and Effective Implementation to Develop Solar Energy

Event Coverage3 November 2022244Views 0Likes 0Comments

Jakarta, 27 October 2022 - The Institute for Essential Services Reform (IESR) launched the Indonesia Solar Energy Outlook 2023 report. This report was originally part of the Indonesia Energy Transition Outlook (IETO) which has been routinely published every year since 2018. Starting this year, the solar energy section is made in a separate report to…

Dicussion and Media Briefing : Towards the G20 Summit, How are G20 Climate Actions?

3 November 202279Views 0Likes 0Comments

Indonesia, which is hosting the G20 this year, is the world's fourth largest coal exporter and 75% of its energy mix still comes from fossil fuels (Climate Transparency 2022). Despite its reliance on fossil fuels, Indonesia proposed the core theme of Sustainable Energy Transition in its G20 presidency. The energy crisis proved to be one…

ANTARA | IESR Urges G20 Countries to Prioritize Solar Energy to Achieving NZE

Media Coverage28 October 2022100Views 0Likes 0Comments

The Executive Director of the Institute for Essential Services Reform (IESR), in a webinar entitled "Shine Bright: Advancing G20 Solar Leadership," which was monitored online in Jakarta, stated that the G20 has a big responsibility to suppress global warming because the G20 contributes up to 80 percent of CO2 emissions from energy use. Read more on…

Seize the Energy Transition Funding Opportunity

Press Release9 August 2022109Views 0Likes 0Comments

Jakarta, 28 July 2022- Indonesia's energy transition requires significant investment to develop renewable energy generation, clean fuels, power grids, and energy storage. However, Indonesia also has a huge opportunity to attract investment in the renewable energy sector while developing innovative financing instruments One out of three panel sessions at the G20 seminar series that discuss…

Strengthening a Just Energy Transition with Sustainable Finance

Press Release9 August 2022138Views 0Likes 0Comments

Jakarta, 28 July 2022- The energy transition is crucial and urgent to be implemented to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and limit the earth's temperature below 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2050, according to the Paris Agreement. Strengthening the just energy transition requires sustainable and innovative funding. Vice President Ma’ruf Amin took a picture with keynote…