Senior Economist - Energy and Sustainable Business Program This is a hybrid position which requires 8 days per month in the office. You will be based in our office in WRI Indonesia, Jakarta. Existing work authorization is required at the time of application submission as WRI is unable to sponsor any visa work sponsorship for this position. Program Overview World Resources Institute (WRI) is an independent global research organization that turns big ideas into action at the nexus of environment, economic opportunity, and human well-being.
The Energy and Sustainable Business (ESB) program works to advance decarbonization among corporates and accelerate a just transition towards net zero emission in Indonesia, while balancing the need for economic development. In achieving that, WRI introduces two of its flagship products, which are: Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHGP) for emission accounting and Science-based Targets initiative (SBTi) for ambitious and science-aligned emission reduction target setting, within and beyond corporate value chains.
By adapting the tools to the national context and pairing them with rigorous policy and economic analysis, WRI Indonesia guides both government and corporates towards a complete net zero journey, aiming to increase Indonesian industry's competitiveness through strengthened standards and climate mitigation/adaptation measures which ultimately contribute significantly to Indonesia's emission reduction.
WRI Indonesia believes 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 a daunting task, as the interlinkages are complex and context specific and depend on the issues under consideration, the geographic and temporal scales, sector of the industry, and the existing technologies.
Therefore, the ESB program aims to work across disciplines with the climate, cities, and forest and land use teams to combine decarbonization frameworks, quantitative and economic models, low-carbon technology solutions, and other policy-making decision tools to support and achieve key national commitments, such as Indonesia's net zero ambition. Green Industrial Policy Package to Enable Industrial Net Zero in Indonesia by 2050 Indonesia's Ministry of Industry, supported by WRI Indonesia and partners, has formulated a roadmap towards a clean and net zero industry sector by 2050 covering nine priority subsectors: cement, iron and steel, fertilizers, chemicals, pulp and paper, textiles, glass and ceramics, automotive, and food and beverages.
The roadmap sets out an ambition to reduce emissions by around 66.5 million tCO2e by 2035 and 289.7 million tCO2e by 2050 — a decade ahead of Indonesia's national net zero target — through energy efficiency, fuel substitution, electrification, process and technology upgrades, and carbon capture. Delivering that trajectory, however, depends on an enabling policy and economic environment that does not yet exist in coherent form.
This research develops a Green Industrial Policy Package to Enable Industrial Net Zero in Indonesia by 2050: an integrated set of policy and economic instruments that makes low-carbon production the commercially rational choice for Indonesian industry. The work examines the design and sequencing of three policy design stage mainly: strategic case building, policy package design, and macroeconomic impact analysis.
The policy package design will center around three key areas: clean input infrastructure (clean energy, sustainable material, and low carbon technology), market, and financing. Job Highlight The Senior Economist will provide technical leadership in conducting and coordinating the economic analysis underpinning WRI Indonesia's clean industry transition work and to raise the analytical standard of the ESB program's policy products.
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