Indonesia's energy transition, climate resilience, and green economic development will take center stage at the Indonesia Net-Zero Summit (INZS) 2026, which will be held on 1 August 2026 at Balai Kartini, Jakarta.
Organized by the Foreign Policy Community of Indonesia (FPCI), the summit has entered its fifth edition and has grown into one of Indonesia's largest independent climate forums, bringing together policymakers, businesses, academics, civil society, and youth to discuss pathways toward a net-zero future.
According to FPCI, this year's summit is designed around the theme "It's Time to Deliver", emphasizing the urgency of moving from commitments to concrete implementation in climate action, while ensuring that efforts to address climate change also strengthen economic growth, regional cooperation, and long-term resilience.
Five Priorities Shaping This Year's Summit
INZS 2026 will feature discussions across five major issue clusters:
- Energy Security for All
- Geopolitics and Diplomacy
- Aligning Economy, Trade and Finance
- Enhancing Nature-based Solutions
- Building People and Societal Resilience.
These clusters are designed to address distinct dimensions of the transition, from strengthening energy resilience amid geopolitical shocks, to positioning climate policy as a core part of economic and foreign policy, to scaling up nature based solutions and protecting communities from climate-driven risks like heatwaves, floods, and pollution.
Individual sessions built around these clusters will range from Indonesia's climate action amid growing geopolitical uncertainty and the state of global climate governance, to nature-based solutions for national welfare and urban climate resilience. A separate session will also take on a more contentious question: whether electric vehicles are a genuine climate solution or a problem of their own.
The summit's speaker list draws from government officials, diplomats, business leaders, and civil society figures, including Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto, UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Water Retno Marsudi, and FPCI founder Dino Patti Djalal, among others.
Powering the Transition
Renewable energy remains one of the summit's central topics.
Among the headline sessions is a discussion on Indonesia's ambition to develop 100 gigawatts (GW) of solar power, exploring the investment, policy, and infrastructure required to support large-scale solar deployment.
Other sessions will examine financing for the energy transition, the role of critical minerals in green industrialisation and what a "just transition", balancing climate ambition, economic growth, and public welfare should look like for Indonesia.
Energy security across Southeast Asia will also receive dedicated attention, alongside discussions on climate resilience and regional cooperation in building a more sustainable energy system.
Strengthening International Cooperation
International cooperation forms another key component of INZS 2026.
One of the featured sessions, held in collaboration with the Institute of Climate Change and Sustainable Development (ICCSD), Tsinghua University, will explore Indonesia-China cooperation on climate and energy, including lessons from China's green transition that may support Indonesia's renewable energy development.
The summit's international dimension extends beyond China. A separate English language session will examine whether ASEAN countries are pursuing energy and climate security separately or as a bloc, while other sessions held in partnership with ORF America, E3G, and GRA will look at building clean tech trade corridors and accelerating clean electrification as part of the region's energy security.
Indonesia's Climate Agenda
Indonesia enters the discussion with ambitious climate objectives.
The government has committed to achieving net-zero emissions by 2060, or sooner, a target set in 2021 and reinforced through subsequent regulations governing the national energy roadmap.
Renewable energy has been gaining ground faster than in previous years. According to Indonesia's Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM), the share of new and renewable energy in the national power generation mix reached 17.89 percent by April 2026, already surpassing the government's own target of 16.46 percent for the year though coal and other fossil fuels continue to supply the bulk of the country's electricity.
Indonesia is also moving to activate its national carbon market more fully. The Financial Services Authority (OJK) issued a new regulation in July 2026 to strengthen the carbon trading framework, following earlier government statements targeting full market operation by mid-2026 to unlock additional financing for the energy transition.
These realities make issues such as energy security, investment, industrial transformation, and international cooperation increasingly important as Indonesia works toward its long-term climate commitments.
INZS 2026 is free and open to the public, with registration and the full agenda available on FPCI's website. The one day summit will close with a special performance by musician Teddy Adhitya as part of the "No Music on a Dead Planet" campaign.
