JETP Jakarta Workshop 2026
Advancing Just and Equitable Energy Transitions
Workshop · Jakarta · 9–11 February 2026
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Advancing Just and Equitable Energy Transitions:
Legal, Policy and Financial Dimensions for Developing Countries
- Location: Jakarta, Indonesia
- Dates: 9–11 February 2026
- Format: Specialist roundtables + public dialogue
- Hosted by: CELIOS & Warwick Law School
Objectives
- Analyse legal, financial and governance frameworks shaping just energy transitions
- Address constraints facing developing countries, including debt, fiscal space and trade dynamics
- Examine climate finance instruments, industrial policy and regulatory design
- Bridge research, policy and civil society practice
- Build a durable international network for equitable climate finance and energy policy
About the Workshop
The global shift towards low-carbon energy systems is essential to meet climate obligations under the multilateral climate regime of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Paris Agreement. The urgency to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through decarbonization of energy sources and to adapt energy systems to a rapidly warming world requires broad and deep systemic change at local, national and international levels.
Energy transitions are not merely a shift in energy resources but a fundamental structural transformation across all facets of social and economic life. Transitions that are uneven, implemented in a fragmented manner and embedded within historical and contemporary social, economic and geopolitical asymmetries risk being disorderly and destabilising as well as entrenching pre-existing socio-economic inequalities within and among countries.
For developing countries, the challenges of achieving a just energy transition are especially acute. Faced with an ever-multiplying constellation of internal and external pressures, including higher levels of poverty and challenges of sustainable development, limited domestic resources and fiscal constraints, liquidity and sovereign debt crises, persistent trade imbalances, vulnerability to price shocks of food and other essential commodities and lack of access to affordable and sustainable sources of energy, developing countries face a disproportionately higher financial, social and economic cost of energy transition.
At the same time, the cost of inaction on decarbonisation and climate resilience will also be disproportionately higher for developing countries as disorderly and uneven transitions can lead to disruptions in energy supply, stranded assets, economic stagnation, dislocated production and supply chains, environmental degradation, and the displacement of workers and communities. Additionally, due to existing financial, economic and geopolitical hierarchies, developing countries risk becoming sites of green extraction in the global green transition as both repositories of critical minerals and laboratories of experimentation for global arms race for green technologies.
Current legal, policy and regulatory debates on just energy transition highlight the complexity of balancing climate goals with urgent sustainable development priorities in developing countries, conducted within the backdrop of geopolitical and economic uncertainty, ongoing war, genocide, and militarisation, and the impacts of continuing natural disasters and humanitarian crises. Developing countries urgently require just and equitable energy transitions that balance climate imperatives with social equity, economic development, financial stability and debt sustainability. A corollary of this imperative is the impetus to meet the scale of finance required for energy transitions and to develop equitable, inclusive and appropriate policies and regulatory frameworks to enable such transitions.
Workshop Format
This invitation-only workshop will take place in person over three days at the offices of the Centre for Economic and Law Studies (CELIOS), Jakarta, Indonesia. It will be comprised of plenary and panel discussions and roundtables as well as informal networking sessions for participants to build research, policy and advocacy links for future collaborations. Participants will be given the opportunity to showcase work undertaken on just energy transitions in their institutions and countries and present case studies of research and policy and advocacy work as well as practical operationalisation of just energy transition policies, programmes and projects.
Contact Information
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