Press Release: Indigenous Women and Youth Call for Urgent Actions for Just Energy Transition Published: 26 September 2024 Press Release Thirty Indigenous women and youth representatives from nine countries across Asia gathered at the Regional Conference on a Just and Sustainable Energy Transition held from September 20- 22, 2024.
A Call for Energy Justice in Southeast Asia Published: 23 March 2023 Article Southeast Asia’s energy transition needs not only to be accelerated in terms of technology deployments but also to be processed and accomplished justly. Doing so requires hinging the region’s energy transition plans and activities to the distributive, recognition, procedural, and restorative tenets of justice. Laurence L. Delina
Charting a Path Forward in ASEAN’s Climate Change Agenda Published: 20 February 2023 Article As the world grapples with the pressing and existential threat of climate change, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) needs to take more immediate action. While the agriculture sector has discussed the outcomes of COP27 in Bangkok held in December 2022, ASEAN as a body has remained conspicuously silent on its views on the outcomes of the COP27 (e.g., the Loss and Damage financial facility), its implications for Southeast Asia, and what the region should prioritize for COP28. Albert Salamanca
Mekong Community Resilience in the Face of Dam Development, Environmental Degradation and Climate Change Published: 14 October 2022 Article Hydropower dams on the Mekong mainstream have resulted in many negative impacts on riverine communities who depend on the river’s transboundary ecological web for their livelihoods. Ongoing plans for development continue to impact people’s lives – can it be halted before it reaches a tipping point? Tipakson Manpati
Vietnam: 'Why Don’t You Get an Electric Vehicle?’ Published: 19 September 2022 Article At first, it seemed it would take forever to find an electric vehicle (EV) user in Ho Chi Minh City, formerly or still widely known as Saigon. In June, I sent out a bunch of messages to try to find someone who is using an EV, but the responses were not encouraging. “EV… what? No, I don’t have such a car,” many said. Others said they did not know anyone who had one. Nguyen Thuy Mien
Climate pragmatism or Faustian bargain? What the new US climate law does—and where it fails Published: 19 August 2022 Analysis The Inflation Reduction Act is seen as an expression of climate pragmatism by some and a Faustian bargain with the fossil fuel industry by others. What exactly is it? Liane Schalatek
Singapore: Fuelling Demand for Cleaner Energy Published: 14 February 2022 Article Any transition towards a sustainably powered Singapore, a city-state of 5.45 million people, will thus entail a delicate balance between affordability, reliability, and sustainability – an “energy trilemma” that, the government has warned, is unlikely to result in the fulfilment of all three considerations. Joel Chong
New Energy Ecosystem Can Aggravate Existing Inequalities If Gender Gap Is Not Addressed Published: 22 November 2021 Interview Ms. Silvia Sartori, Senior Project Manager of ENERGIA, the International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy, speaks about why gender matters in the energy debate, how a ‘victimization narrative’ inaccurately represents women, and what can be expected from the Gender and Energy Compact launched in September 2021. Daniel Abunales, Lea Goelnitz
Decarbonization, the Southeast Asian Way Published: 29 September 2021 Article No Single Pathway. Southeast Asian countries’ targets and wish lists toward carbon neutrality are like individual recipes that use different ingredients in various ways, to produce the same dish (hopefully). But the region and the world are still off-target for keeping global warming to under 2º Celsius and carbon neutrality by 2050 or thereabouts. Johanna Son
“It’s a clear signal that the Asian Development Bank is finally, finally moving away from coal.” Published: 6 September 2021 Interview Mr Rayyan Hassan, Executive Director of the NGO Forum, urged the ADB to take the coal moratorium ahead and move towards a full transition to renewable energy finance as soon as possible. In this interview, he shares what happened next and what still needs to be done. Daniel Abunales, Lea Goelnitz
Institutional and Governance Aspect of the Energy Transition: Case of Thailand Published: 3 December 2018 Blog With strong influences from fossil fuel industries on these policy mechanisms, real changes will occur only with strong push from many stakeholders and the public. Over the last ten to twenty years, there are a lot of progress on policy, planning, and actions on energy efficiency and renewable energy in the country. But with the political and governance context of Thailand, it may take many more years until the policy mechanisms in Thailand will work in favor of the transition to the energy system based on renewables. energy. Suphakit Nuntavorakarn
Environmental Protection in the Post-2015 ASEAN Economic Community Published: 29 October 2015 Although ASEAN’s efforts to balance economic growth and environmental sustainability are growing, they are often overshadowed by the group’s economic integration agenda. Dr. Alexander C. Chandra, Fina Astriana
