Climate Politics

Indonesia’s $20 Billion Climate Deal With Biden Hits Delay

  • Investment blueprint had been expected around mid-August
  • Launch of investment plan now expected “later this year”

Indonesia's climate financing deal would fund upgrading its grid to spurring renewable energy investment.

Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg
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Indonesia has pushed back the launch of a much-anticipated investment plan underpinning a landmark $20 billion climate financing deal struck with US President Joe Biden last year.

Efforts to hammer out the specifics of the Just Energy Transition Partnership, or JETP — which is intended to provide affordable financing to clean up the Southeast Asian nation’s coal-dependent power grid — have been hampered by disagreements over the cost of funds, and by legal and policy tangles.