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The Study on the Roadmap for Multilateral Power Trade in ASEAN analyses how cross-border electricity trading can strengthen regional energy security, affordability, and sustainability. It outlines institutional, regulatory, and technical pathways, providing guidance for ASEAN Member States to design policies and mechanisms that support a phased approach—starting with subregional markets and building toward an integrated ASEAN-wide power trade system.
Southeast Asia’s electricity demand is set to double by 2050, with solar and wind now among the most cost-competitive options. This IEA report assesses the region’s readiness to integrate higher shares of variable renewables, outlining key challenges, opportunities, and actions for policymakers and utilities through 2030 and beyond.
This first edition of the Technology Brief Series explores the role of renewable hydrogen in Southeast Asia’s power sector. It examines where hydrogen can add real value, the risks of inefficient use, and how policymakers can prioritise investments for a cost-effective and secure energy transition.
This brief shows how ADB plans to help Asia and the Pacific’s ports cut emissions, reduce their carbon footprint, and become more resilient using loans, grants, and equity from its proposed $1 billion Sustainable and Resilient Maritime Fund (SRMF).
Private FIs’ capital choices shape decarbonisation, yet voluntary pledges and CCIs underdeliver. The report proposes an “impact levers” framework for FIs, CCIs, and regulators to align finance with real-economy goals, embed risk, and prioritize actionable, actor-specific steps beyond net-zero targets.
Malaysia supports the development of a harmonised regional framework for ASEAN and is actively engaging in international agreements to facilitate the cross-border transportation of CO2, reinforcing its commitment to regional collaboration in CCUS initiatives. This report explores the evolving policy and investment frameworks, Malaysia’s future potential as a CCUS hub through their groundbreaking projects, barriers to overcome, and the way forward to accelerate CCUS.
ASEAN’s energy transition must be inclusive. This brief urges ACE to add sex-disaggregated data—covering education, workforce, entrepreneurship/finance, decision-making, and energy access—to databases, enabling evidence-based policies, highlighting women’s contributions and gaps, and improving energy security and decarbonisation under APAEC 2026–2030.
Over the past three decades, the five most steel-intensive Southeast Asian countries, Indonesia, Thailand, Viet Nam, Malaysia and the Philippines, have emerged as important players in the global steel sector, contributing three percent of global steel production. Rapid industrialisation and infrastructure development have significantly increased regional steel demand, while production in Southeast Asian countries has quadrupled over this period.
However, the region has seen a surge in emission-intensive steel manufacturing investments, with steel sector emissions having almost doubled within the last five years. This highlights the urgent need to curb emissions, especially in the carbon-intensive steel sector.
As global trade dynamics evolve and low-cost steel imports grow, the Southeast Asian steel sector finds itself at a crossroads, either it continues to rely on fossil fuels, or it seizes the chance to lead with green technologies of the future. Policymakers now have a unique window of opportunity to shape this transition by aligning industrial growth with climate goals.
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the steel sector and sets out a clear roadmap for how Southeast Asia’s steel industry can achieve technically and economically viable net-zero emissions by the 2050s, supporting both regional and global decarbonisation goals while sustaining economic growth.