New innovations ranging from plastic-free agricultural solutions to tech that transforms the livelihoods of Indonesian waste pickers, are just some of the sustainable start-ups on show at “Demo Day”, as part of the Road to G20 Summit in Bali.
Environment
According to the World Bank, Indonesia generates approximately 7.8 million tonnes of plastic waste annually.
Indonesia’s Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ministry is preparing four seaweed industrialisation zones to capitalise on the potential of seaweed commodities, an official has said.
Rough seas driven by strong winds, which scientists link to rising global temperatures, are increasingly common and treacherous, while warming waters are killing fish or causing them to migrate to cooler areas.
The Indonesian government has launched a program that will pay thousands of traditional fishers to collect plastic trash from the sea as part of wider efforts to cut marine plastic waste by 70 per cent by 2025.
Bali’s most popular beaches prepare for an onslaught of plastic pollution washing onto the shoreline.
Waste4Change is one of the companies that wants to help by increasing rates of recycling and enabling better waste management.
The community-focused seaweed farming organisation MARI Oceans has entered a funding partnership with leading impact investors Deliberate Capital and the Swiss Re Foundation, to enhance current seaweed farming practices in Indonesia.
Pari islanders from Indonesia are taking action into their own hands and suing the world’s biggest cement producer.
Indonesia has affirmed its commitment to implementing environment and forestry-centric policies to support local, national, and global climate action, including by increasing its greenhouse gas emission reduction target.
Worsening climate change adds pressure to food production, and agriculture is a major cause of greenhouse gas emissions.
Putting a price on carbon does not come at the cost of prosperity.
Hundreds of protesters, students, and environmental activists, who were members of environment advocacy group Kolektif Bumi Butuh Aksi, staged a climate strike in Central Jakarta.
Indonesia has never shied away from expressing its hunger for modernisation and industrialisation.
The soul of electric vehicles is sustainability. The EV industry’s kryptonite, however, is not its carbon footprint, but rather the unnecessary loss of high-grade biodiversity associated with sourcing minerals.
In a coastal community on Indonesia’s Java island, villagers must constantly take soil and stones to local graveyards to secure the resting places of their dead friends and relatives.
