JAKARTA - Executive Director of the CERAH Indonesia Foundation Agung Budiono said Indonesia could take advantage of its membership in the economic blocks of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS) to obtain energy transition funding.
"BRICS may be an opportunity to close this gap (defense)," Agung said as quoted by ANTARA, Wednesday, January 22.
The statement was in response to the exit of the United States from the Paris Agreement, which had an impact on funding programs, such as the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP).
The JETP program relies on the support of developed countries, of which the US and Japan are the leaders.
Oleh karena itu, keluaran AS dari Perjanjian Paris dapat bermamplik pada penunda atau pengurangan dana.
Agung sees that there is an opportunity for China's leadership to become a green leader in supporting the energy transition in Indonesia.
"For example, there used to be a Green Belt and Road Initiative discourse, maybe it could really be taken seriously and executed," said Agung.
China, he continued, could provide funding for renewable energy expansion according to President Prabowo Subianto's statement at the G20 which will build 75 GW of renewable energy in the next 15 years.
"Of course, this also depends on China's own will," he said.
Agung also highlighted China's tendency, which at the same time still aggressively utilizes fossil energy.
For example, in several nickel smelters owned by China, the construction of captive power plants is still ongoing.
"Perhaps, if Indonesia's climate diplomacy is strong and asks for more concrete funding support to China, there will be positive opportunities," said Agung.
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Earlier, United States President Donald Trump stated that the United States would withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement because it considered the agreement unfair and one-sided.
The Paris Agreement on climate change was adopted in 2015 by 195 members of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
The goal is to limit the increase in global average temperature to well below two degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial level, and should be close to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
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