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Why the world’s most ambitious coal phase-out deal has failed – and what it means for climate finance

In December 2025, Indonesia quietly abandoned plans to close the Cirebon-1 coal power plant.

The Conversation

The world’s largest climate finance deal was built to flounder: why funding fails to reach the front-line

Adopted in December 2015, the Paris Agreement commits countries to keeping global temperature rise below 2°C above pre-industrial levels.

The Conversation

Rising coal demand overshadows Southeast Asia's transition to renewable energy

Southeast Asia’s need for coal is growing faster than anywhere else in the world, undermining progress on cutting carbon emissions that contribute to global warming

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Indonesia's clean energy future is at the center of a supply struggle between the US and China

Indonesia’s clean energy future is at a crossroads

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Are Indonesia and Vietnam's multibillion-dollar clean energy deals stuck? Experts say not yet

Indonesia and Vietnam signed multibillion-dollar energy transition deals in 2022 that were heralded as drastic shifts in financing that would enable the coal-dependent countries to pivot to cleaner energy

The Independent UK

Indonesia's Coal Love Affair Still Aflame Despite Pledges

Sania sits in front of her home in Indonesia, less than a kilometre from Southeast Asia's biggest coal complex, where chimneys pump dark grey smoke and a chemical smell into the air.

International Business Times

‘They challenged the Communist monopoly’: Vietnam regime turns on its climate champions

NGO leaders and technical experts who helped secure western aid for official shift to clean energy are being locked up now that they are no longer needed

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A plan for how Indonesia will spend $20 billion to transition to cleaner energy has been submitted

A plan for how Indonesia will spend $20 billion to transition to cleaner energy was submitted Wednesday to the government and its financing partners

The Independent UK

Long-awaited Vietnam energy plan aims to boost renewables, but fossil fuels still in the mix

Vietnam has released a long-anticipated energy plan meant to take the country through the next decade and help meet soaring demand while reducing carbon emissions

The Independent UK

Vietnam faces criticism for arresting climate activist as it closes clean energy deal

Hoang Hong, founder of the environmental group CHANGE VN, was arrested Wednesday on tax charges, the U.N. says. Human rights experts say Vietnamese officials use the law to target civil society.

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Vietnam's human rights record is being scrutinized ahead of $15 billion climate deal

Environmental and human rights groups say Vietnam's crackdown on civil society will undermine an international climate program that's also aimed at boosting the country's economic development.

WEKU

Indonesia promises move to clean energy, but challenges loom

Indonesia, one of the world's largest coal-producing countries, has agreed to drastically reduce its reliance on fossil fuels in the coming decades

The Independent UK

Trillions needed to fight climate change

At COP 27, negotiators have been haggling over how to pay for the mounting costs of climate change

Salon

Indonesia signs deals to accelerate clean energy transition

Indonesia has signed deals with international lenders and major economies that will bring billions of dollars in funding to help the country increase its use of renewable energy

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U.S., Japan and partners mobilise $20 billion to move Indonesia away from coal

A coalition of countries will mobilise $20 billion of public and private finance to help Indonesia shut coal power plants and bring forward the sector's peak emissions date by seven years to 2030, the United States, Japan and partners said on Tuesday.

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