**Program Overview**
- The Energy and Sustainable Business (ESB) program works to advance decarbonization among businesses, accelerating a just transition towards net zero emission in Indonesia while balancing the need for economic development. Supporting Indonesia's pledge on Net Zero Emission, we are seeking to advance private sectors contribution towards net zero, at any scale of business. With our partners in KADIN Net Zero Hub, PLN, and key ministires, we instill the decarbonization journey framework through trainings and technical assistance with companies, including facilitating the development and implementation of decarbonization strategy for companies. This long-term effort requires both policy and technical knowledge, combined with WRI's convening power, to ultimately move the key stakeholders to take actions and achieve the intended emission reduction.
As the co-founder of Science-based Targets initiative (SBTi) and Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHGP), we utilize these framework and tool that facilitate ambitious companies for near to long-term climate targeting driven by research, as to reach net zero emission (NZE) commitments toward limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 C, within and beyond the companies' value chain. SBTi provides global net zero standard that is implemented by WRI, among its partners, as think tank that provides best available guidance and quality assurance for net zero journey by businesses. By adapting the tools to the national context, WRI Indonesia aims to increase Indonesia industries's competitiveness through strengthened standards and climate mitigation/adapation measures which ultimately significantly contribute to Indonesia emissions reduction.
Specifically in the energy sector, one of our flagship initiatives is the Clean Energy Investment Accelerator (CEIA). CEIA is an innovative public-private partnership initiative that advances policy and financing frameworks to meet the clean energy needs of commercial and industrial energy consumers. We believe that as the largest energy consumer group, the commercial and industrial sector could use their buying power to drive energy transition through policy advocacy, business model and technology adoption. The CEIA focuses on key emerging markets across the globe including Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Colombia, and Mexico. CEIA Indonesia established a Working Group, consisting of energy large buyers from industrial and commercial sectors, and has been holding a series of dialogues to identify and refine areas for public-private collaboration and advance optimal solutions for corporate procurement of renewable energy.
In the next 5 years, we are advancing our expertise in decarbonization within manufacturing industries (e.g. F&B, chemical, iron &steel, etc.). WRI Indonesia aims to build our institutional knowledge on clean heat solution and energy efficiency measures to strengthen our impact in industry decarbonization issue. By focusing on several industrial subsectors, we will gain in depth understanding about each sector's challenges, opportunities and pathway to maximize emission reduction from the energy use.
WRI Indonesia believe that sustainable development highlights the need for integrated approaches to finding solutions that are aligned with the challenge of achieving economic, social and environmental goals that are often interlinked. This can be daunting task, as the interlinkages are complex and context specific and depend, inter alia, on the issues under consideration, the geographic and temporal scales, sector of the industry, and the existing technologies. Therefore, the ESB program works across disciplines with the cities team, climate team and the ocean to combine low carbon technology systems, quantitative models, and other policy-making decision tools to achieve and support key national initiatives in Indonesia such as the acceleration of the achievement of national renewable energy targets and net zero ambition.
**Job Highlight**
- The Climate and Energy Senior Research Analyst will play a leading role in building and strengthening research excellence of WRI Indonesia's Energy and Sustainable Business Program that will contribute to achieve projects' goals as well as the overarching WRI's climate and energy goals and impact targets. Research scope will vary, depending on the scopes of projects, across topics such as corporate renewable energy technology and procurement, industrial decarbonization, grid integration, low-carbon technology (incl. clean heat), emission reduction pathway, modelling etc. In-depth understanding about climate and energy issue is a must, and should be combined with excellent analytical and critical thinking in demonstrating thought-leadership in the areas. On daily basis, he/she is expected to work closely with the Senior Manager for Energy and Sustainable Business, Senior Engagement Lead, and the ESB research team to strategize research target and work