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The Energy Tab
Energy subsidies in South Africa, 2025.
Electronic Commerce and the World Trade Organization
This report provides an overview of multilateral and plurilateral e-commerce processes at the World Trade Organization (WTO), highlighting recent progress and upcoming decision points ahead of the 14th Ministerial Conference (MC14), to equip policy-makers and negotiators with an up-to-date understanding of global digital trade governance.
December 2025 | Carbon Minefields Oil and Gas Exploration Monitor
Despite investments in ongoing fossil fuel growth, countries are working to transition away from fossil fuels.
Indonesia’s Next Cooking Transition
This report compares three alternatives—induction stoves, dimethyl ether (DME), and city gas—and finds that induction stoves are the most practical and viable option to support Indonesia’s shift to cleaner, non-fossil cooking
A Step-by-Step Guide for Governments to Prepare Fossil Fuel Subsidy Inventories
This guidance paper is intended to assist COFFIS members and other governments—including at the subnational level—in producing an inventory of fossil fuel subsidies.
Mapping India's Energy Policy 2025
Mapping India's Energy Policy 2025 gathers the latest available data on energy-related government support and revenues in India, including fiscal year 2023–2024.
Sustainable and Resilient Value Chains: Deforestation
This report examines how voluntary sustainability standards and private sector actors can prevent, respond to, recover from, and adapt to deforestation risks in global value chains.
Toward a More Responsible Critical Minerals Supply Chain Supporting Indonesia’s Energy Transition
Evidence-based policy brief on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards for Indonesia's nickel industry to support a responsible energy transition.
Budgeting for Net Zero: Powering India's reliable clean energy future
This report assesses the cost competitiveness of firm and dispatchable renewable energy (FDRE) relative to new thermal power in India through 2050, any government support needed to accelerate FDRE uptake as the cost-effective generation option, and the macroeconomic implications of scaling FDRE.
Coal Transition Impacts and the Approach to Inclusive Just Transition Policies in Indonesia
Economic and social impacts of a potential coal phase-out in Indonesia and pathways for an inclusive, gender-responsive just transition.