Climate finance must move beyond commitments and reach implementation on the ground. Electric buses (e-buses) provide a compelling example: they can reduce transport emissions and fossil-fuel dependence while improving public health, strengthening energy security, reducing long-term operating costs, and creating economic opportunities. Yet deployment across many emerging economies remains limited because public transport operators often lack the balance sheets and upfront capital required to invest in electric fleets.
Using Indonesia as a case study, this panel will examine the financing gap between climate ambition and e-bus implementation, and explore how climate and development finance can be better translated into bankable investments. The panel will discuss the economic and fiscal benefits while exploring possible financing schemes that are already in practice in other regions.
The objective is to identify scalable financing approaches that can move e-bus commitments into implementation and demonstrate how effective climate finance can deliver simultaneous climate, fiscal, economic, health and energy-security benefits.
Speakers:
ITDP Indonesia