To benefit the climate, Indonesia's electric vehicle push needs greener power


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KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 7 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): Indonesia's electric vehicle drive is likely to overtake its ambitious biodiesel programme within a decade, but will only achieve its aim of helping curb climate change if the country ramps up clean energy investment, environmental researchers say.

The Southeast Asian nation - home to the world's third-largest tropical forests - has steadily increased the share of its biodiesel mandate derived from palm oil since 2018, despite the risk that could fuel deforestation.

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