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Indonesia's Cirebon 1 coal power project highlights gaps in ADB's 'coal-to-clean' ETM scheme
The story of the Cirebon 1 coal power project is symptomatic of the obstacles in Indonesia’s coal phase-out plan. As the first pilot for the Asian Development Bank (ADB)’s Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM), Cirebon 1 may be decommissioned 10 to 15 years earlier than planned, but its environmental and social impacts remain unaddressed, while a new plant is being built nearby.
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People power: monitoring pollution in China
China has the world’s largest continuous emissions monitoring system, but citizen help is needed for it to be effective against industrial pollution.
Coal workers hope education can help the next generation win cleaner, healthier jobs in a region that has been wedded to dirty, dangerous mining for over a century.
Lakes in Phnom Penh are fast being filled in and parcelled off as prime real estate to wealthy and politically connected individuals.
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