Energy Sustainability and Climate Change in ASEAN

1. Front Matter

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2. Impacts of Climate Change and the Mitigation Policies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture in South-East Asia—Drought Conditions and Crop Damage Assessment

      • Manjunatha Venkatappa, Nophea Sasaki, Jiachun Huang, Han Phoumin

      Pages 3-38

   3. Management of Natural Forests for Carbon Emission Reductions Through Improved Logging Practices and Wood Bioenergy Use

      • Nophea Sasaki

      Pages 39-57

   4. Vehicle Technology Impact Assessment Model for Indonesia (VEIA-ID): Concept and First Results

      • Alloysius Joko Purwanto, Dian Lutfiana

      Pages 59-88

   5. Assessment of the Forest Carbon Balance Due to Deforestation and Plantation Forestry in Southeast Asia

      • Nophea Sasaki, Yadanar Yè Myint, Manjunatha Venkatappa

      Pages 89-110

   6. ASEAN Energy Landscape and Emissions: The Modelling Scenarios and Policy Implications

      • Han Phoumin, Fukunari Kimura, Jun Arima

      Pages 111-146

   7. Expediting Transition Towards HELE Coal-Fired Electricity Generation Technologies in Southeast Asia: A Comparative Economic Analysis of HELE and Subcritical Coal-Fired Technologies

      • Hassan Ali, Han Phoumin, Steven R. Weller, Beni Suryadi

      Pages 147-165

3. Policy Measures for Promoting Renewable Energy Projects

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167

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   2. Utilising Green Finance for Sustainability: Empirical Analysis of the Characteristics of Green Bond Markets

      • Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary, Aline Mortha, Naoyuki Yoshino, Han Phoumin

      Pages 169-194

   3. Potential Green Hydrogen from Curtailed Electricity in ASEAN: The Scenarios and Policy Implications

      • Han Phoumin, Fukunari Kimura, Jun Arima

      Pages 195-216

   4. Green Technology Development and Deployment in the ASEAN—Lessons Learned and Ways Forward

      • Rabindra Nepal, Han Phoumin, Abiral Khatri

      Pages 217-238

   5. Innovation Management and Productivity in Sustainable Energy—The Case of Biomass Fuel Manufacturers in Malaysia and Thailand

      • Sufian Jusoh, Norasikin Ahmad Ludin, Mohd Adib Ibrahim

      Pages 239-260

   6. Harnessing Wind Energy Potential in ASEAN: Principles, Perspectives and Policy Implications

      • Youngho Chang, Han Phoumin

      Pages 261-276

   7. Sustainability and Life-Cycle Cost Analysis of Solar Photovoltaic-Generation Systems in ASEAN Countries

      • Norasikin Ahmad Ludin, Nurfarhana Alyssa Ahmad Affandi, Norul Hisham Hamid, Mirratul Mukminah Junedi, Kathleen Purvis-Roberts, Sufian Jusof

      Pages 277-302

   8. Understanding Quality Energy-Related Infrastructure Development in the Mekong Subregion: Key Drivers and Policy Implications

      • Han Phoumin, Sopheak Meas, Hatda Pich An

      Pages 303-330

This book provides several up-to-date empirical policy-oriented studies on assessing the impacts of climate change on various economic sectors and the role of renewable energy resources in mitigating pollution and climate change. It suggests various policy recommendations on how to increase the share of renewable energy resources in the energy baskets of the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the rest of the world to ensure energy sustainability. As of 2020, most of the world’s energy investment still went to carbon-emitting sources, namely, fossil fuels. On the other hand, the Covid-19 pandemic and the economic Project Overview 20 March 2021 08:39 Page 6 of 9 downturns shrank the global energy demand, including fossil fuels, resulting in a sharp drop in their prices. Low fossil fuel prices are harmful to developing renewable energy projects, making solar, wind, and other renewable energy resources less competitive as sources of electricity. This is endangering the Paris agreement and the “Climate Action” goal of the United Nations. Given the high share of fossil fuels in the energy mix of the members of ASEAN, tremendous challenges must be faced for their energy transition in the post-Covid-19 world. The authors call for sound policy and applicable technologies to ensure sustainable energy availability, accessibility, and affordability to reach emission reduction targets.

• Climate Change
• Energy Sustainability
• ASEAN
• Energy Markets
• Energy Policy
• Energy Transition

• Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), Jakarta, Indonesia

  Han Phoumin, Fukunari Kimura

• Social Science Research Institute, Tokai University, Hiratsuka, Japan

  Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary

• University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

  Jun Arima

Dr. Han Phoumin is Senior Energy Economist with the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia. He has more than 20 years of experience working at various international and inter-governmental organizations and multi-disciplinary research consortiums related to the energy market and technologies, environment, integrated water resource management, governance, and economic development in the region of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and East Asia. He specializes in economic development and policy and applied econometrics. Over the past ten years, much of his career has involved the power sector, incredibly sustainable hydropower development, renewable energy research, energy efficiency, clean coal technology, energy security, and energy demand and supply forecasting.

Dr. Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary is an associate professor of economics at Tokai University in Japan, and a visiting professor at Keio University inTokyo, Japan. He taught as an assistant professor at Keio University and Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. He is a grantee of the Excellent Young Researcher (LEADER) status from the Ministry of Education of Japan (MEXT). He is also a visiting professor at Chiang Mai University (Thailand) and a distinguished research fellow and external scientific member at the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam). He was a visiting professor/visiting scholar at the University of Tokyo, Griffith University (Australia), University of Tasmania and The Institute of Energy Economics of Japan (IEEJ). Currently, he is serving as Editor of Cognet Business & Management (Scopus), Associate Editor of Finance Research Letters (SSCI, Scopus), Associate Editor of the Singapore Economic Review (SSCI, Scopus) and Associate Editor of Globel Finance Journal (ESCI, Scopus). He has guest-edited special issues for prestigious journals including Energy Policy, Energy Economics, International Review of Economics and Finance, Economic Analysis and Policy, Journal of Economic Integration; Journal of Environmental Management; Australasian Journal of Environmental Management; Sustainability and Frontiers in Energy Research. His research credits include authoring more than 110 academic journal papers and book chapters and editing nine books published by Springer, Routledge and World Scientific. Dr. Taghizadeh-Hesary holds a Ph.D. in economics from Keio University with a scholarship from Japan’s government (MEXT).


Prof. Fukunari Kimura is a Professor in the Faculty of Economics, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan since 2000 and Dean of the Graduate School of Economics, Keio University, since 2015. He is also Chief Economist at the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia, Jakarta, Indonesia, since 2008. He serves as a co-editor of the Journal of the Japanese and International Economies. He specializes in international trade and development economics. He has recently been active in writing academic and semi-academic books and articles on international production networks and economic integration in East Asia.


Prof. Jun Arima is a professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy (GrasPP), University of Tokyo, Japan, and Senior Policy Fellow on Energy and Environment, Economic Research Institute of ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA). Currently, he also serves as Visiting Professor, International University of Japan, Project Leader for the 21st Century Public Policy, Distinguished Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Pacific Institute of Research (APIR), Consulting Fellow at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade, and Industry (RIETI), Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Energy Economics of Japan (IEEJ) and a member of German Japan Energy Transition Council (GJETC). He is also one of the Lead Authors of the forthcoming 6^th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).  He began his career at the Ministry of Economic, Trade, and Industry in 1982 (then, Ministry of International Trade and Industry-METI), which was followed by more than three decades of experience in various roles in energy and environment. In his professional career record, he served in various senior-level positions at International Energy Agency (IEA); Director-General of the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) London Office; METI’s Special Advisor on Global Environmental Affairs. He has extensive publications on energy policy.

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