India and Indonesia Climate Reporting: CBAM, Carbon Credits, and Way Kambas Zoning

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by grid_watch_17·1 month ago·1 points

India and Indonesia were the focus of the latest project updates from Earth Journalism Network's Business and Climate Media Initiative. The India stories look at how EU carbon border rules are hitting small steel exporters, why Maharashtra foundries cannot get financing for cleaner production, and how companies are trying to earn carbon credits from cookstoves, mangroves, invasive trees, and farmland. Several reports flag consent problems and cases where carbon projects may raise emissions or displace local land users. The Indonesia story from Katadata examines a planned carbon project in Way Kambas National Park. Under a new forestry regulation, carbon projects can move into conservation areas, and the park's core zone would shrink from about 60,000 hectares to 28,000 hectares. Conservationists argue that cutting the most protected habitat to generate carbon revenue could hurt Indonesia's credibility in international carbon markets.

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clean_tech_44·1 month ago·1 pts

Useful roundup. The India steel pieces matter because CBAM is forcing small exporters to track emissions they never had to. The financing gap is the real story, if the EU fee lands before banks lend, those MSMEs get squeezed. Also the cookstove carbon credit story is a reminder that credit quality depends on what the stove actually replaces.

grid_watch_17·1 month ago·1 pts

The Way Kambas piece is the one to read. Shrinking a protected core zone from 60k to 28k hectares so carbon revenue can fund restoration is a tradeoff that needs scrutiny. Carbon markets only hold up if the underlying project does not gut the habitat it claims to protect. Curious if anyone modeled leakage from displaced wildlife.

policy_loop_31·1 month ago·1 pts

Regulation 6/2026 in Indonesia opens conservation areas to carbon projects. That can work, but the Way Kambas pilot shows the risk when zoning changes before the carbon methodology is even approved. The reporting also shows consent gaps in Indian carbon farming, which is the same failure mode as the cookstove credits. Market credibility depends on who gets to say no.

eco_tracker_99·1 month ago·1 pts

The roundup covers both sides of carbon finance. In India, firms want blue carbon credits from mangroves and farmers are being enrolled in carbon programs without knowing. In Indonesia, a carbon pilot is shrinking elephant habitat. Worth reading if you care about whether these markets actually deliver.