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How global policies for clean energy impact Indonesia
Expanding the use of bioenergy, as currently pursued with the B30 biodiesel program and hopefully to be increased to B50 and beyond, is a real effort to reduce dependency on fossil fuels.
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Clean energy: A gas station worker in the West Papua city of Bintuni serves his customers. The government is promoting biofuels such as B30 biodiesel to reduce the country's dependency on fossil fuels. (JP/Jerry Adiguna)
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he Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) issued a communique at the end of its ministerial meeting early in December that future development priorities supported by the provision of energy must be based on low-emission technologies that promote clean, sustainable and affordable energy that is safe and efficient.
The IEA also recommends that the flow of funds and aid to countries to some extent will depend on how those countries deal with their policies, commitments and actions toward reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. The euphemistic narrative tagline is a program for the transition to clean energy.
The IEA is an autonomous intergovernmental organization of developed countries within the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) with a mandate to promote energy security, economic development and environmental protection.
This is very much in line with the United Nations objectives stated in the Paris Agreement of 2015. The core aim of the accord is to ensure global warming, which results from a greenhouse effect caused by CO2 emissions, does not exceed 2 degrees Celsius.
The communique states that the energy sector is the source of more than 85 percent of global CO2 emissions. The most significant contributors to emissions are fossil like coal, petroleum and natural gas.
In the same week, the UN Climate Change Conference known as COP 25 took place in Madrid, raising the same issue.
The event stressed that the only way to save the globe is a concrete collective effort to combat climate change. One of the recommendations to be submitted to the OECD countries is to reduce and/or stop aid to countries that develop and utilize fossil energy.
