Building an equitable and thriving energy future in Asia
Asia’s transition to clean energy presents vast benefits – not just for the climate, but for people and economies alike. However, ensuring a just energy transition – one that prioritises equity and minimises negative impacts on people, workers, and at-risk communities – is critical. A just transition is essential to ensuring meaningful support for vulnerable communities, expanding energy access and affordability, and fostering inclusive development.
Through our grants, we support partners to minimise the negative impacts and maximize the opportunities of the energy transition. This includes conducting research and dialogues with government, private and public stakeholders to ensure that new renewable energy initiatives are people-centric and implemented responsibly, with safeguards for vulnerable workers and the most impacted communities. Partners also support governments and financiers to create effective compensation and benefit schemes for workers while running energy entrepreneurship incubators and training programs to strengthen the pipeline of leaders and energy professionals.
CPI Indonesia (CPI) is a global non-profit organisation collaborating with governments, businesses, and financial institutions to advance low-carbon, climate-resilient development through expert analysis, policy recommendations and financial mobilisation.
In Indonesia, CPI is spearheading initiatives that prioritise the social dimensions of the energy transition, particularly through the development of a Just Transition Framework, with a focus on creating tangible benefits for vulnerable communities, workers, and local economies. This includes advocating for dedicated funding to support capacity-building initiatives, scoping studies, and pilot projects that address the unique needs of communities impacted by the energy changes ahead, ensuring they’re equipped with the resources and opportunities needed for a sustainable future.
At the subnational level, CPI Indonesia is also championing the implementation of just transition policies that empower and uplift the most vulnerable populations. These include community-based renewable energy projects, circular economy integration, and capacity-building programs aimed at empowering women-owned small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). These efforts are designed to generate local employment, expand access to clean energy, and foster inclusive, sustainable growth at the grassroots level, ensuring that the energy transition leaves no one behind.
The Responsible Energy Initiative Philippines (REI PH) is a collaborative platform, bringing together industry leaders, financiers, civil society, and policymakers to collectively develop business and investment models, on-the-ground actions and value-chain relationships, all with the goal of supporting the just, inclusive and ecologically safe production and deployment of utility-scale renewable energy in the Philippines.
The initiative was launched in 2023 by a Steering Committee comprising the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities, Oxfam Pilipinas, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Philippines, Forum for the Future, the Centre for Empowerment, Innovation and Training on Renewable Energy (CentRE), and the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre.
With 50 participating organisations representing the renewable energy system, the REI-PH Collaborative Action Platform (a) generates collective insights and knowledge of the ecological and social impacts associated with renewable energy and (b) applies that knowledge to the development of projects that shift the sector towards responsible policies and practices.
