TY - BOOK
T1 - Energy Transitions in ASEAN COP26 Policy Report
AU - Seah, Sharon
AU - Mcgowan, Philip
AU - Xing, Melissa
AU - Martinus, Melinda
AU - Ghoshray, Atanu
AU - Lorusso, Marco
AU - Wong, Ryan
AU - Onn, Lee Poh
AU - Elliott, Lorraine
AU - Setyowati, Abidah
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This report is part of an overarching project developed in collaboration with the COP26
Universities Network and the British High Commission in Singapore. The COP26 Universities
Network is a growing group of over 55 UK-based universities working together to help deliver
an ambitious outcome at COP26 and beyond. In this first ever collaboration of its kind, the
network has brought together top researchers and academic figures from the UK and
Singapore to publish a series of four reports aimed at supporting policy development and the
UK’s international COP26 objectives in Singapore and across Southeast Asia. The reports focus
on the following areas:
Energy Transition
The COP26 Policy Report on Energy Transition starts by exploring the impact of COVID-19 on
ASEAN countries. This is followed by an examination of how CO2 emissions can be reduced,
while at the same time maintaining a sustained economic growth with a mix of renewable
and non-renewable energy consumption. This report also provides an analytical discussion on
employment and social justice following the energy transition.
Nature-based Solutions
Nature-based climate solutions (NbS) are widely available, scalable, and cost-effective
mechanisms to sequester carbon and safeguard Southeast Asia’s large carbon stocks. In
addition, NbS provide ample co-benefits such a reducing haze, protecting biodiversity and
shorelines, ecosystem services, and can provide economic opportunities through carbon
credits and small-scale economies.
Green Finance
The Green Finance report addresses the rationale for carbon credits to be traded across
ASEAN. It tackles policy considerations, a carbon offsets’ financial markets response based on
consultations with industry partners, and the accounting review applied to carbon finance.
Ultimately, it examines and assesses voluntary carbon markets connecting the dots with
nature-based solutions and decarbonization.
Adaptation and Resilience
The ASEAN region is under increasing threat from natural hazards, some of which are
exacerbated by climate change. The Adaptation and Resilience report presents the hazards,
exposures and vulnerabilities that the region is experiencing, as well as strategies to reduce
disaster risk at the sub-national and national levels and in transboundary contexts.
AB - This report is part of an overarching project developed in collaboration with the COP26
Universities Network and the British High Commission in Singapore. The COP26 Universities
Network is a growing group of over 55 UK-based universities working together to help deliver
an ambitious outcome at COP26 and beyond. In this first ever collaboration of its kind, the
network has brought together top researchers and academic figures from the UK and
Singapore to publish a series of four reports aimed at supporting policy development and the
UK’s international COP26 objectives in Singapore and across Southeast Asia. The reports focus
on the following areas:
Energy Transition
The COP26 Policy Report on Energy Transition starts by exploring the impact of COVID-19 on
ASEAN countries. This is followed by an examination of how CO2 emissions can be reduced,
while at the same time maintaining a sustained economic growth with a mix of renewable
and non-renewable energy consumption. This report also provides an analytical discussion on
employment and social justice following the energy transition.
Nature-based Solutions
Nature-based climate solutions (NbS) are widely available, scalable, and cost-effective
mechanisms to sequester carbon and safeguard Southeast Asia’s large carbon stocks. In
addition, NbS provide ample co-benefits such a reducing haze, protecting biodiversity and
shorelines, ecosystem services, and can provide economic opportunities through carbon
credits and small-scale economies.
Green Finance
The Green Finance report addresses the rationale for carbon credits to be traded across
ASEAN. It tackles policy considerations, a carbon offsets’ financial markets response based on
consultations with industry partners, and the accounting review applied to carbon finance.
Ultimately, it examines and assesses voluntary carbon markets connecting the dots with
nature-based solutions and decarbonization.
Adaptation and Resilience
The ASEAN region is under increasing threat from natural hazards, some of which are
exacerbated by climate change. The Adaptation and Resilience report presents the hazards,
exposures and vulnerabilities that the region is experiencing, as well as strategies to reduce
disaster risk at the sub-national and national levels and in transboundary contexts.
M3 - Commissioned report
BT - Energy Transitions in ASEAN COP26 Policy Report
ER -