The trouble with gas in Indonesia

The document highlights a contradiction between Indonesia's commitment to the Global Methane Pledge and the World Bank's Country Partnership Framework (CPF) 2021-24, which supports the acceleration of natural gas and biogas deployment. It warns that gas infrastructure projects, including power stations and LNG terminals, will increase greenhouse gas emissions. The author urges the redirection of finance away from fossil gas and unproven technologies like CCUS toward renewable energy, grid modernisation, and a just transition from coal.

• Indonesia committed at COP26 to the Global Methane Pledge, aiming for a collective reduction of global methane emissions by at least 30% from 2020 levels by 2030, which may eliminate over 0.2C of warming by 2050.
• The World Bank's Country Partnership Framework (CPF) 2021-24 for Indonesia promotes the acceleration of natural gas and biogas deployment and aims to improve the investment climate for private investors through regulatory reform and gas infrastructure planning.
• The document advocates for the exclusion of support for coal gasification and Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS), describing them as unproven, expensive, and false solutions that justify continued fossil fuel exploitation.

APA

rrotadmin (2022). The trouble with gas in Indonesia. Recourse. https://re-course.org/newsupdates/the-trouble-with-gas-in-indonesia/

Chicago

rrotadmin. The trouble with gas in Indonesia. Recourse, 2022. https://re-course.org/newsupdates/the-trouble-with-gas-in-indonesia/.

Wikipedia

{{cite press release |last1=rrotadmin |title=The trouble with gas in Indonesia |publisher=Recourse |date=14 April 2022 |url=https://re-course.org/newsupdates/the-trouble-with-gas-in-indonesia/ |access-date=23 October 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@misc{rrotadmin2022trouble, author = {rrotadmin}, title = {{The trouble with gas in Indonesia}}, publisher = {Recourse}, year = {2022}, month = apr, url = {https://re-course.org/newsupdates/the-trouble-with-gas-in-indonesia/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }