Call for Papers - Energy and Decarbonisation in Southeast Asia Compendium
Description:
Southeast Asian countries face the difficult task of securing affordable, accessible and sustainable energy supplies to meet projected population and economic growth, while facilitating rapid decarbonisation across multiple sectors to meet climate goals. In recent years, policymakers have implemented several strategies aimed at increasing the deployment of renewable energy and harnessing natural resources and technologies for decarbonisation. Yet, the continued use of highly-pollutant fossil fuels in the electricity generation sector in Southeast Asian countries and the continued degradation of natural carbon sinks such as forests and peatlands have undermined the Paris Agreement goals.
Against this backdrop of complex policy choices facing the environment and economic development, this workshop and the resulting compendium will bring together policymakers, practitioners, and scholars to discuss the opportunities and challenges to energy transition and decarbonization in Southeast Asia. The workshop adopts a broad understanding of the process of energy transition and decarbonization, which includes actions at the grassroots, national and international levels. This workshop will facilitate social, political, environmental and economic analyses of energy transition and decarbonization in Southeast Asia. Papers that analyze technological issues through a social sciences framework will also be considered.
We will consider submissions on a broad range of topics on energy and decarbonisation in Southeast Asia, including but not limited to:
Regional cooperation: Studies on cooperation between Southeast Asian countries on the ASEAN Power Grid, regional energy trade, cross-border technical cooperation, regional forest conservation, and peatland restoration programmes. Authors are encouraged to identify pathways for expanding current levels of regional cooperation on energy and decarbonisation.
Best practices and lessons learned: Case studies on specific national policies or projects on energy transition or decarbonisation that highlight best practices as well as lessons learned. Topics can include national energy or environmental policies as well as specific hydropower, wind, solar, or geothermal projects, reforestation, and peatland restoration projects.
Innovative and technological breakthroughs: Analysis of new developments in renewable energy technology, energy efficiency, big data, digitalization, carbon capture and storage, nature-based climate solutions, and environmental advocacy. Authors are encouraged to emphasize the social, political, economic, or environmental impacts of innovations or technological breakthroughs.
Green Finance: Studies on addressing the gaps in green finance, including carbon markets, the role of businesses and multinational corporations, green and blue bonds, carbon border adjustment mechanisms, carbon taxes, incentives/disincentives mechanisms for renewable energy transformation, and fossil fuel subsidy reform. Authors are encouraged to avoid technical language and explain policy implications of developments in green finance in layman's terms.
Deadline: August 26, 2022
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