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

This report shows how a Multistakeholder-Dialogue (MSD) was used to promote carbon neutrality in Indonesia’s North Sulawesi Province: Elaborating a long-term carbon neutrality vision, including on how to improve local disaster resilience, and setting three 2030 targets for energy intensity, carbon intensity and the renewables share. The MSD combines deep outreach into local communities with use of advanced global science. The target setting was facilitated by long-term global scenarios describing the dynamic background comprising global population, energy, emissions, and GDP, all impacting upon and benchmarking local communities. Monitoring renewable energy generation has been separated into local generation, distant generation, its impact on energy security and energy efficiency, and the relation to the green sector economy and green finance. The report makes seven specific recommendations applicable to cities, provinces or local communities wishing to become carbon neutral.