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Stocktaking the Climate Action in Southeast Asia

Blog15 November 2023701Views 0Likes 0Comments

Johor Bahru, 15 November 2023 - In achieving the agenda of global energy transition, the Southeast Asia region is taking measures to climate action including its non-state actors. Meaningful participation from non-state actors is crucial in observing the currently running policies and providing input for future improvements. Stocktaking becomes a crucial activity to track the…

Capacity Building for Sub National Government in the Era of Just Transition

Event Coverage31 October 2023922Views 0Likes 0Comments

Jakarta, 26 October 2023 - The energy transition currently being discussed will have a significant impact on the use of fossil fuels such as coal. Various countries have committed to reducing the use of fossil fuels as one of the key actions in their energy transition. Fossil producing countries such as Indonesia need to be…

Realizing Energy Democratization through Solar Energy

Blog6 October 2023657Views 0Likes 0Comments

Jakarta, 5 October 2023 - Energy is a basic human need not only to support daily activities but more importantly to increase productive activities. Solar energy is a renewable energy source that can realize energy democratization. Solar energy fulfills several aspects for the democratization of energy such as the availability of resources throughout the year,…

IESR: Indonesia Needs Comprehensive Package Policy for Energy Transition

Blog30 June 2023792Views 0Likes 0Comments

Jakarta, 27 June 2023 - The urgency to shift energy transition into a cleaner, more sustainable one has become increasingly crucial, as highlighted by the IPCC synthesis reports, which states that global temperature has already increased 1.1 degree Celsius. Energy, as the driver of economic growth, has been a key factor in economic activities since…

Learning from the US How to Seize the Climate Opportunity

Event Coverage16 September 2022642Views 0Likes 0Comments

Jakarta, 13 September 2022 - To combat the climate crisis, our action today will determine the economic, and sustainability of mankind in the long run. The IPCC report has already told us that the remaining time we have to hold the global temperature at 1.5 degree Celsius is limited. Global commitment to address climate change…

C20 Urges Utilities Companies in G20 to Implement Energy Transition

Press Release30 August 2022759Views 0Likes 0Comments

From left to right: Vivian Lee (SFOC), Fabby Tumiwa (IESR), Federico Lopez De Alba (CFE), Dennis Volk (BNetza), Philippe Benoit (Columbia University) photo by IESR Bali, 30 August 2022 – As the main contributor to GHG emissions in the energy sector, Civil of Twenty (C20) Indonesia urges power utility companies to set inevitable targets, and a…

Preparing the Workforce That Will Be Affected by Reduced Demand of Fossil Energy

Event Coverage14 July 2022655Views 0Likes 0Comments

Jakarta, July 6, 2022 - The global commitment to reduce the use of fossil energy, as well as the increasing climate ambitions of coal-using countries such as China, Japan, South Korea, the United States, the European Union and South Africa have caused global coal demand to fall significantly. As one of the largest coal exporting…

C20 Indonesia Urge for a Just Energy Transition

Event Coverage6 June 2022882Views 0Likes 0Comments

Jakarta, 30 June 2022 - Energy transition is one of the priority issues of Indonesia's 2022 G20 presidency. This role as the leader of the G20 countries is certainly a strategic momentum for Indonesia to show its commitment to the energy transition. The Paris Agreement in 2015 agreed to limit the earth's temperature increase to…

Local Government Has a Great Potential to Develop Regional Bonds for Green Development

Event Coverage20 March 2021960Views 0Likes 0Comments

Apart from the APBN (National Income and Expenditure Budget) and APBD (Regional Income and Expenditure Budget), local governments can now innovate to finance its infrastructure spending, especially those related to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), by issuing regional bonds and/or regional sukuk as a source of sustainable finance. Istiana Maftuchah, Representative of the OJK (Financial Services…

The color of economic recovery is green

Media Coverage26 July 2020609Views 0Likes 0Comments

[Op-ed at The Jakarta Post, 21 July 2020] With the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic felt far and wide, almost all countries are now in combat mode: issuing and implementing various policies to stop the spread and to cushion the impacts on the economy and people’s livelihood. For that purpose, governments have allocated more than US$12 trillion…

JawaPos | IESR Dorong Pemanfaatan Batu Bara untuk Kebutuhan Domestik

Media Coverage21 January 2020528Views 0Likes 0Comments

20 Januari 2020, 18:23:46 WIB JawaPos.com – Direktur Eksekutif Institute for Essential Services Reform (IESR), Fabby Tumiwa menyebutkan bahwa saat ini banyak negara yang berlomba-lomba untuk memanfaatkan cadangan batu bara. Pasalnya, saat ini sedang terjadi transisi dari pemanfaatan energi fosil menjadi energi terbarukan. “Ada transisi dari fosil fuel ke renewable (atau) energi terbarukan. Negara-negara yang menjadi tujuan ekspor kita beberapa…

Indonesia ‘must stop building new coal plants by 2020’ to meet climate goals

Media Coverage3 December 2019634Views 0Likes 0Comments

2 December 2019 JAKARTA — Indonesia must stop building new coal-fired power plants by 2020 if it wants to do its part to cap global warming under the targets of the Paris climate agreement, new analysis shows. The country is one of the few still actively planning and constructing new plants, putting it on a trajectory…