Consultant as Sustainable Palm Oil Policy Specialist

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  • Added Date: Monday, 29 May 2023
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Program Overview

WRI Indonesia is an independent research organization that turns big ideas into action at the nexus of environment, economic opportunity, and human well-being. At WRI Indonesia, we aim to bring innovations in research and business approaches in order to create the enabling conditions for Indonesia to achieve robust economic growth while respecting environmental and social values. We seek to contribute to the accomplishment of ambitious sustainable development goals through working with leaders in public and private sectors, as well as collaborating with civil society organizations, in turning big ideas into action.

Within our Agriculture, Forest, and Land Use (AFOLU) Program, we envision critical ecosystems such as forests and peatlands across Indonesia to be governed fairly and sustainably. We believe sustainable land use management is key for Indonesia to meet its climate goal, in line with keeping the global climate target below the 1.5 degrees Celcius warming threshold, while providing sustainable livelihoods to forest-dependent communities and conserving biodiversity in the landscape. We intend to achieve this by safeguarding the remaining forest and peatland from deforestation, degradation, and fragmentation; maintaining forests and peatland quality through sound stewardship; and restoring degraded ecosystems to improve their productivity, conservation value, and ecosystem services.

To effectively eliminate deforestation from key commodities production and provide robust stewardship for the remaining forest and peatland, we work together with various levels of government, the private sector, and civil society to mainstream the ethical supply chain principles and support forest-dependent communities to secure their livelihood and land rights. We aim to achieve this through research, policy advocacy, and the creation of a community of practice to mainstream sustainable land use management.

Policy Accelerator Indonesia

WRI Indonesia and WRI Global are partnering to deploy a tailor-made Policy Accelerator in Indonesia. This work contributes directly to the Shifting Incentives workstream under the Climate Solutions Partnership. The Climate Solutions Partnership (CSP) is a 5-year initiative that aims to remove barriers to finance projects that tackle climate change and bring them to scale. Together HSBC, WRI and WWF are supporting the transition to a net zero global economy that protects and restores nature, whilst helping HSBC deliver to its own net zero strategy.

The Policy Accelerator is a peer-to-peer capacity-building program led by world-class and the participation of policymakers that have demonstrated the motivation and authority to champion innovative improvements in public incentive programs. The project will build upon the Landscape Policy Acceleratorโ€™s experience in Latin America, where it has supported three cohorts of policymakers across nearly ten countries.

The policy accelerator aims to shift public incentives and unlock capital flows for the decarbonization of Indonesiaโ€™s Palm Oil Supply Chain through a peer-to-peer capacity-building program led by world-class mentors. Participants are mainly policymakers that have demonstrated the motivation and authority to champion innovative improvements in the public sector.

Job Highlight

The Sustainable Palm Oil Policy Specialist will be based in Jakarta. He/she will report to the Senior Manager of Supply Chain and Livelihood Transformation and coordinate with Policy Accelerator Project Lead to support the uptake and capacity-building strategy of relevant tools and frameworkswhich cover the following main components:

  1. Develop understanding on the landscape of the palm oil industry in relation to climate change issues, through:

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