JakartaGlobe-July 5
The UK recently announced that it would provide £9 million or about $10.8 million in grants to help propel Indonesia’s shift towards low-carbon transport as the Southeast Asian country undergoes robust urbanization. The UK’s £9 million grant is part of the newly launched Future Cities: UK-Indonesia Low Carbon Partnership.
The money will go into funding the capacity-building of five transport-related projects over the next three years in selected metropolitan areas, including the highly populous and polluted Jakarta. Under this program, the UK will assist policy development, project delivery, as well as stakeholder consultations at national and sub-national levels. “Our projects will hopefully result in improved coordination between national and subnational transport planning. [As well as] enhanced capacity in subnational governments to design and prioritize emission reduction in transport planning and better leveraging of green finance, [and so on],” British Ambassador to Indonesia Owen Jenkins said in Jakarta on Tuesday. The transport sector is a major source of emissions. The International Council on Clean Transportation estimates approximately 25 percent of the global carbon dioxide emissions come from the transport sector. This figure can even reach up to almost 30 percent in Indonesia where cities are urbanizing rapidly, according to Jenkins. Read more at: https://jakartaglobe.id/news/uk-launches-9m-grant-for-lowcarbon-transport-in-indonesia
