Jakarta aims to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050
Author: Sylviana Hamdani
According to Jakarta’s Transportation Transformation: Reviewing the Transport Sector’s Zero Emission Target by 2050, a new study by Greenpeace Indonesia and the Resilience Development Initiative (RDI) launched at the Goethe Institute Jakarta on Dec. 14, 2022, the capital generated 22.8 million tonnes of CO2 in 2020, with fossil-fueled private vehicles making more than two-thirds of the amount. “Jakarta contributes significantly to Indonesia's carbon emissions,” Leonard said. “But the city, with its current status, fiscal capacity and political importance can [also] be a differentiator and role model for many other parts of Indonesia for its response to the climate crisis.” Jakarta has recently set a target for the city to reach net-zero emissions (NZE) by 2050. Various strategies have also been launched to achieve this ambitious aim. "It will be difficult for Jakarta to reach zero percent emissions,” Elisabeth Rianawati, director of RDI, said during her presentation at the launch of the report. Greenpeace Indonesia and RDI have developed four scenarios for lowering carbon emissions in Jakarta in their new study. "Even in the most ambitious scenario that we’ve made for the study, emissions of the transportation sector [in Jakarta] will remain around 2 million tonnes of CO2 in 2050,” Elisabeth explained. “And [this amount] can only be achieved if all vehicles in Jakarta have become electric, private vehicles are reduced to 4.4 million and the city’s electricity is entirely sourced from renewable energy.”