12.30 - 2.00 pm Wednesday 17 September
Seminar Room B (Arndt Room) Coombs Building

Abstract
Climate change policy is currently being mainstreamed into Indonesia’s national economic and development strategies, raising complex institutional and policy coordination issues. We investigate how effective Indonesia’s institutional and economic governance framework is in attracting international carbon finance and investment flows, and how it could be improved to benefit from future international climate agreements. We look at the central government’s policy framework, and illustrate centre-region aspects of climate change policies with case studies from Sumatra. Preliminary findings show a fragmented national framework for carbon finance with a limited focus on Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects. Key barriers to implementation of CDM projects are lack of capacity of local governments, high transaction costs in project cycles, general investment climate conditions and distorted price structures in the energy sector. On a broader level, the recent record with the project–based CDM approach raises questions on whether a more encompassing policy strategy and institutional framework is needed, pointing to scaled-up programmatic CDM approaches and industry or sector–wide agreements, and ultimately national targets. This research is supported by the AIGRP program.
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Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program

Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies

The Australian National University

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