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Research Assistant/Lecturer at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and Ambassador of the Global Network for Advanced Management. Abiral is a final year International MBA student and has completed a Master of Economics & Finance at the Renmin University of China with a valedictorian honor. He also has done two MBA exchanges in the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and has enrolled in joined MBA advanced management courses from Yale, IMD, Lagos and FGV on sustainability and finance. Mr. Abiral was part of the team that secured first prize in the Global Investment Competition 2019 participated by 32 global business schools. Mr. Khatri has worked as an investment analyst for Sinosteel Corporation in Beijing and led investors on infrastructure projects focused on renewable energy in South Asia. He also worked as an Economic Consultant with the Palladium group for the Ministry of Finance projects of Nepal and previously in the treasury department of Nepal’s central bank. Mr. Khatri has successful founded a startup NGO focused on mobilizing relief funds to the victims of natural disasters and led international volunteers in Nepal.
Southeast Asia faces one of the fastest growths in electricity demand in the world, driven by increasing incomes, urbanization and industrialization. Development and deployment of green energy technologies offer a natural conduit to meet the growing electricity needs of the Association of Southeast Asian Economies (ASEAN) region while also serving as a viable strategy to adapt to climate change. The aim of this study is to formulate the policy lessons for the ASEAN economies and governments in facilitating the development and deployment of green technologies and alternatives energy options based on a specific case review of the ASEAN. The ASEAN economic region is prioritizing sustainable economic growth while minimizing the regional impacts of climate change through decarbonization. The study undertakes a case-specific analysis in reviewing green energy deployment in the context of green growth and energy transition using secondary data sources and discusses the current status and future options of renewable energy development in the ASEAN. We find that carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies will allow the ASEAN to continue to use fossil fuels while achieving sustainable economic growth as coal demand increases in the region. The deployment of CCS technologies will also act as an enabler of hydrogen energy as a green energy solution in the region in the longer term. Boosting public acceptance to nuclear energy, implementing energy efficiency improvement policies and eliminating fossil fuels consumption subsidies are feasible short-term and medium-term policies. Increasing both the public and private sector energy investments and development of CCS technologies in the longer term are necessary complementary policies to maximize the benefits of greater deployment of renewable energy sources in the region and combat climate change.
Rabindra Nepal; Han Phoumin; Abiral Khatri. Green Technological Development and Deployment in the Association of Southeast Asian Economies (ASEAN)—At Crossroads or Roundabout? Sustainability 2021, 13, 758 .
AMA StyleRabindra Nepal, Han Phoumin, Abiral Khatri. Green Technological Development and Deployment in the Association of Southeast Asian Economies (ASEAN)—At Crossroads or Roundabout? Sustainability. 2021; 13 (2):758.
Chicago/Turabian StyleRabindra Nepal; Han Phoumin; Abiral Khatri. 2021. "Green Technological Development and Deployment in the Association of Southeast Asian Economies (ASEAN)—At Crossroads or Roundabout?" Sustainability 13, no. 2: 758.