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Category Archives: Business & Society
Academy of Management's Annual Meeting - Boston, August 2023:
The investment gap in energy transition in “carbon -critical countries”(CCCs)
Attracting sufficient investment for energy transition is enormously complex as it attempts to transform the largest and most expensive infrastructure built over centuries of investments across the chain in a very short time. Spreading the efforts too thinly across over 100 countries will unlikely produce the outcome at pace. This presentation proposes a research approach that focuses on a handful of countries, dubbed “carbon critical countries”, that have disproportionately more potential impact (negative and positive) in the efforts towards global energy transition and climate change mitigation.
Also posted in Climate Change, Energy
Opinion at the Jakarta Post
Institutional credibility at the core of sustainable energy transition
Indonesia’s fossil resources have helped brought it becoming a middle-income country. What got us here, won’t take us where we need to be. Whether or not the global energy transition will also propel Indonesia out of the middle-income trap heavily depends on the quality of its institutions. Carbon-intensive development can be leapfrogged, institutional credibility cannot.
Also posted in Climate Change, Editorial, Energy, Indonesia, Miscellaneous
Opinion at the Jakarta Post:
Sustainable Development Goals in business school curricula to help address “colossal global dysfunction”
Business schools need to equip their students (regulars and executives alike) with (i) the intellectual capacity to understand the complex challenges, dilemmas, trade-offs, but also major opportunities in the broader business environment; (ii) the moral compass in guiding their future decisions; and (iii) the skillsets to deliver the required (business) outcomes.
Also posted in Editorial
T20 Indonesia 2022 Policy Brief:
A climate change investment treaty amongst carbon-critical countries
The unprecedented investment gap in energy transition requires an additional US$2 trillion/year more investment in energy systems. This investment must be focused on carbon-critical countries if the world
is to see change at the required scale and pace. A growing number of private and public investors are persuaded, but they lack the certainty necessary to justify taking the economic and political risks inherent in energy-transition investment. This paper proposes a novel approach to a proven concept of more than 3,000 investment treaties currently operational: a Climate Change Investment Treaty, focused on protecting carbon-critical investment in carbon-critical countries to help navigate the wicked problem that is energy transition.
Also posted in Climate Change, Editorial, Energy
Opinion at the Jakarta Post:
G20 must drive massive and targeted investment ramp-ups amidst multiple crises
The G20 summit of 2022 has their work cut out. In our view this concerns restoring trust in the SDG-agenda and nurture its potential to align state policies for sustainable development and corporate strategies in support of the SDGs. Before the leaders leave the Island of Gods, every communique they convey to the world will have bearings on investment decisions globally – and many would pray towards a more resilient world. After all, businesses cannot thrive in a society that fails and societies cannot be resilient where businesses blunder.
Also posted in Editorial
Opinion at the Jakarta Post:
De-risking climate investments in energy transition
The problem of attracting sufficient investment for energy transition is enormously complex. The global energy system comprises the largest and most expensive infrastructure built over centuries of investments across the chain, and we now only have a very short window to transform it. For this endeavor to succeed, investments in energy transition need to be significantly de-risked.
Also posted in Climate Change, Editorial, Energy
Opinion at The Jakarta Post:
Indonesia can lead G20 in sustainable energy transition
It may feel a bit like a strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde when we speak highly of green energy and energy transition whilst at the same time scramble to secure coal supply. In the early weeks of 2022, the Indonesian government had to take measures to ensure that (coal-fired) electricity is not […]
Also posted in Climate Change, Editorial, Energy Tagged Indonesia
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