Report of the 6th Sustainability and Resilience Workshop
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To deliver a sustainable solution in reducing climate change impacts in Indonesia, Su-re.co has synergised think-do-be tank activities in active collaboration with the government, private sectors, and European Commission partners. The ongoing projects are LANDMARC, IKI Small Grant Project: Biogas Initiative, and TIPPING+. The 6th Sustainability and Resilience workshop aimed to deliver current progress on the projects and unlock further possibilities for carbon emission reduction from the energy and land-use sector.
The workshop also intended to contribute to national policymaking, such as Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), addressing the climate crisis in Indonesia. On Thursday, 28 October 2021, 122 delegates from local and national Governments, policymakers, NGOs, national and international academic researchers virtually gathered. In the beginning, current progress in each ongoing project was delivered. Updated activities in LANDMARC were presented, including determination of the scope of studies, recent stakeholder engagements, desk research to identify regional and national Land-based Mitigation Technology (LMT) portfolios, and appointed three case studies.
As part of the Biogas Initiative IKI Small Grant Project, gas meter installation was successfully performed in Flores, East Nusa Tenggara. A technical roadmap is in the development stage to fit the existing platforms for selling carbon offset. TIPPING+ has started with two case studies in Banten and Bali to explore transformation towards clean energy. These locations will be used as main references to be upscaled at the national level and contribute to policymaking. Focus Group Discussion (FGD) was carried out to pursue narratives in NDC in energy and landuse mitigation.
Each project was brought into a different group of stakeholders to discover the challenges and opportunities of LMTs, the best blockchain option in selling carbon offset, and validate future alternatives in the energy sector from agents’ point of view.
The workshop also maintained an interactive panel discussion to understand tipping phenomena in the energy and land-use sector. Indonesia has committed to achieving zero carbon by 2060. From the stakeholders’ perspective, the commitment should also be accompanied by phasing out coal consistently and developing various renewables simultaneously. In the land-use sector, the tipping phenomenon is still facing barriers. The verification of the data related to forest cover area is lacking at the institutional level. Thus, the mitigation potential of LMTs has not yet been fully determined. In the end, important takeaways were noted: achieving high penetration of clean energy usage essentially requires diverse energy sources, financing, and various schemes to accelerate the positive tipping point. Land-use modelling and successful blockchain development in carbon trade will also demand comprehensive and reliable data. Significantly, the co-production of knowledge between stakeholders is necessary to support integrative policy packages in renewable energy and land-based technologies.
