Asia Pacific > Indonesia’s coal transition deal needs ramped up ambition to align with 1.5C pathway -report

Indonesia’s coal transition deal needs ramped up ambition to align with 1.5C pathway -report

Published 00:01 on January 26, 2023  /  Last updated at 10:17 on January 25, 2023  / Peter Kiernan /  Asia Pacific, Other APAC

A recently agreed target to cap Indonesia’s power sector emissions at 290 million tonnes of CO2 per year by the end of the decade can help the Southeast Asian economy reach its net zero emissions by 2060 goal, but is not ambitious enough to transform its carbon intensive power sector to align with a 1.5C pathway, a think tank report released Thursday has found.
A recently agreed target to cap Indonesia’s power sector emissions at 290 million tonnes of CO2 per year by the end of the decade can help the Southeast Asian economy reach its net zero emissions by 2060 goal, but is not ambitious enough to transform its carbon intensive power sector to align with a 1.5C pathway, a think tank report released Thursday has found.


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