Promoting Carbon Neutrality in North Sulawesi – Vision, Targets, Benchmarking and Monitoring

Promoting Carbon Neutrality in NorthSulawesi–Vision, Targets, Benchmarkingand Monitoring APECEnergy Working Group October2024 APEC Project:EWG04 2022A Produced by: Sam RatulangiUniversityJl. Kampus Unsrat,Bahu95115ManadoIndonesiarektorat@unsrat.ac.idhttps://en.unsrat.ac.id/ Global FactorInternational ConsultingColon de Larreategui 2648009 BilbaoSpaininfo@globalfactor.comhttps://www.globalfactor.com/en/ APEC SustainableEnergy Center (APSEC)Tianjin University,Weijin Road 92Tianjin 300072, China(86) 22 27 400847Apsec2014@126.comhttps://apsec.tju.edu.cn/ For:Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Secretariat35 Heng Mui Keng TerraceSingapore 119616Tel: (65) 68919 600Fax: (65) 68919 690Email:info@apec.orgWebsite:www.apec.org ©2024APEC Secretariat APEC#224-RE-01.7 Foreword Planning for carbon neutralityis one of the most complex tasks of our societies. Itrequires clearscience-led guidance in a holistic approach as well as a deep outreach into society. TheMultistakeholder Dialogue(MSD)held in North Sulawesiin February 2024managed to have both.Thedeepoutreach into society was achieved by gathering local representatives from the NorthSulawesi Government and its cities and regencies, development and planning offices, stakeholdersfromlocal universities,energy,finance,agriculture,food,and women’s organizations.Representatives fromthecentral government (Bappenas andMinistry of Energy and MineralResources) wereactivelyinvolved.The science-led guidance and holistic approach was providedby a host of international expertsinvited to share their knowledge with the local stakeholders. I have been particularly honoured to participate in, and preside over, thisMSDat one of its criticalmoments: the adoption of the ambitious 2030 targets. This type of forum and its ambition to setlong-term targets hasbeen an innovation for the North Sulawesi Province. They were also alearninggroundfor the way to discuss and elaborate future-oriented policies.Even though thethree adopted 2030 targets(energy intensity, carbon intensity and renewables share)as well as thevision for carbon neutrality and disaster resilience are at present simple suggestions stemmingfrom the stakeholders without legal force, we will spare no efforts to find waysforthe NorthSulawesi Provincial Governmenttogive them legal force.Thisstepisdecisive tostartmobilizinginvestment necessary forcarbon neutrality. For local and regional authorities, especially for peripheral ones like North Sulawesi, it is essentialto have top quality information on the evolving global context as well as on their own region. Noregion wants to be left behind.On this point, theMSDhasbeen able to benefit from theset ofreliablegloballong-termindicatorsmade availableby APEC Sustainable Energy Center (APSEC).This has shown that if the world is on track to triple the installed renewable capacity by 2030,North Sulawesi should make efforts not to fall behind.This is the true meaning of globalbenchmarking.Thedescribed6-dimensionalmonitoringsystem could further help guidingourprovince towards carbon neutrality.Concerninglocal data, theMSD has shown the lack ofgranular energy and emissions dataof the North Sulawesi Province.We willcarefullytakenoteofthesuggested ways to improve the data collection of North Sulawesi. We are looking forward to the next steps to be taken after the successful completion of this project. Dr Fransiscus E.MANUMPIL,Assistant III,General administration affairs,North SulawesiProvince Acknowledgementsand Disclaimer This report has been prepared through a collaborative approach. The main authorof this report isMr. Craig JamesMENZIES(Global Factor International Consulting S.L., Bilbao, Spain)who hasauthoredall the chapters except the following ones:Section 1.3has been authored byHizkiaH.D. TASIK(Sam Ratulangi University,Manado,Indonesia)and Steivan DEFILLA(APECSustainable Energy Center, Tianjin University, China); Section2.3 and thecorresponding annexeshavebeenauthored byHizkiaH. D. TASIK(Sam Ratulangi University,Manado,Indonesia), andChapters 4 and 5and the corresponding annexeshave beenauthored bySteivanDEFILLA(APECSustainable Energy Center,Tianjin University, China). The authors of this report wish to express their gratitude tothe Government of the North SulawesiProvince in Indonesia, as well as to the representatives of its Cities and Regencies who becamemembers of the Cooperative Network of Sustainable Cities in order to facilitate the preparationand implementation of thisproject.Special thanks go to Henriette JacobaROEROEwho hasspared no efforts to contact and motivate stakeholders and authorities of the interest to participatein this project. The authors are grateful to SyaloomHermina DaillyKOROMPIS,Henriette Jacoba ROEROEandBrury BANGUN for the final reading of the report. Great appreciation is also addressed toall102speakers, expertsandparticipants of the Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue, originatingfrom 10 APEC economies as well as from outside APEC,hybridonline-in-per