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New report reveals that Indonesia is falling behind in fulfilling its international energy transition commitments. Nandini Das told the Indonesia Business Post "one of the key problems is that these international commitments are voluntary and non-binding, which ultimately limits their impact”.

While global climate talks, policies and initiatives are progressive on paper, many pledges are voluntary and lack enforcement. "This year’s new round of NDCs is an opportunity for governments to show whether these voluntary pledges will actually drive ambition and action, or be remembered as political and diplomatic posturing,” said Thomas Houlie.

“It really is devastating what has happened,” says Claudio Forner told The Independent. “So much of what the US used to do for climate was channelled through USAID, so for that to just disappear is terrible.”

Despite endorsing multiple energy-related pledges, the Philippines remains highly dependent on coal while lagging behind in its deployment of renewable energy.

Report from IRENA finds 92.5% of electricity installed in 2024 came from renewables.If renewables grew 15% in 2024, "think how much faster they could grow with the full backing of comprehensive, credible and ambitious climate policies”, Dr Neil Grant told AP News.

"Renewable methanol will play a key role in the immediate term as a scalable zero-emission fuel," Michael Petroni told European Energy Innovation. Petroni said Europe is likely to be "heavily reliant on China" for building methanol-enabled vessels as its maritime industry sails towards its net-zero goal.

Bill Hare spoke to 3CR radio on why fracking poses a serious risk to our climate.

At the Re-Energise Caribbean: Clean Energy Catalyst Workshops on Friday 14th March – organised by Climate Analytics Caribbean – participants from across the region met to strategise solutions that can create a more enabling environment for transformative renewable energy innovations.

"From the science, we've known for a very long time that even limiting warming to 1.5C global average mean is going be really bad for our reefs," Bill Hare told AAP following a coral bleaching event off Australia's Kimberley Coast. "We're going to lose a very large fraction of our tropical reefs."