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This paper introduces decarbonization roadmaps for ASEAN nations, emphasizing a balanced approach of boosting renewable energy use while also focusing on CO2 reduction from fossil fuels through technologies like CCS and hydrogen upgrades, suggesting policy actions such as carbon taxes, hydrogen strategies, and regional CCS coordination.

This study applied the theory of planned behavior (TPB) and the variables of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) research to explain the differences and similarities of predictors of EI in six ASEAN economies. The results confirmed that the antecedents of TPB impact entrepreneurial intention (EI), which also affects the country-level entrepreneurial activity.

At the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in November 2021, Vietnam's Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh unexpectedly announced the country's goal of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050, a challenging endeavor for a rapidly growing economy heavily reliant on coal power in the Mekong sub region, raising questions about how the government plans to make this transition.

The paper examines the 2020 CO2 emissions of ASEAN, comprising 4.75% of global emissions, focusing on the major contributors (Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines) and analyzes the 2018 total primary energy consumption and CO2 emission profiles of ASEAN-7, proposing seven pathways for rapid decarbonization, including increased renewable energy, coal-to-gas substitution, electrification, hydrogen use, biofuels, blue hydrogen, and regional carbon capture and storage corridors.

The ASEAN region emitted 1.65 Gtpa CO2 in 2020 from fossil fuels, facing challenges with limited and unevenly distributed renewable energy resources, but it is suggested that carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology can play a crucial role in decarbonizing fossil fuel-based power and industry, with potential for substantial CO2 mitigation and storage capacity identified in sedimentary basins across ASEAN, particularly in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand.

This study explored the potential of an integrated CCUS with EOR project for energy security and economy using a case study in Indonesia through the full chain of CCUS: capture, transport and storage based on models from previous literatures. Publicly available and first-hand data has been analyzed to further assess the cost and benefit of the case study.

This study analyzes the history of ASEAN energy consumption and CO2 emission from both fossil and renewable energies in the last two decades. It shows that the energy distribution are not spare properly among AMS.

Southeast Asia is a significant stakeholder in the global action against climate change, given its growing population, rising greenhouse gas emissions, and vulnerability to climate change impacts. Public policy makers in this region are faced with the challenge of transitioning to cleaner energy sources to enable the attainment of Paris Agreement goals, while also expanding access to affordable and reliable energy supplies. Southeast Asia has one of world's fastest growing rates of greenhouse gas emissions due to rising fossil fuel combustion, second only to South Asia. As such, it is imperative to decouple its energy consumption from emissions growth. This paper reviews Southeast Asia's energy sector trends, with a focus on electricity supply and demand vis-à-vis global decarbonization efforts. Based on global and regional best practices, the paper highlights the crucial role that governments and public policy can play in accelerating the region's clean energy transition, namely through the establishment of mandatory long-term climate and renewable energy targets and binding policies; use of iterative and adaptive power system planning; support for effective market development; financing of pioneering investments and trunk infrastructure; and support for a just and equitable transition.

The power sector is one of the major contributors to global greenhouse gas emissions while also being vulnerable to climate change in its own right. Accordingly, the global power sector needs to accelerate decarbonization. This paper assesses power sector pathways to net-zero emissions by 2050 for the Association of Southeast Asia Nations (ASEAN) using the Low Emissions Analysis Platform (LEAP). In addition to simulating a net-zero emissions scenario, the paper builds reference and renewable policy scenarios, enabling an analysis of additional measures required beyond the business as usual and current policy trajectories to achieve net-zero emissions. The LEAP simulation results indicate that under the net-zero emissions scenario, ASEAN member states need to swiftly capitalize on their currently underutilized renewable energy potential to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. By then, there will have to be a substantial transformation of the technological portfolio with variable renewable energy and energy storage coming to play central roles. The LEAP simulations also indicate that renewable and energy storage technologies are more cost-competitive than carbon capture and storage for achieving the long-term net-zero emissions goal. In the LEAP modeling, GHG emissions rise until they peak in 2029, then gradually decline until reaching zero by 2050. Meanwhile, the emission abatement cost is 16 USD/ton CO2e in the renewable policy scenario and 12 USD/CO2e in the net-zero emissions scenario.