SUSTAINABLE ENERGY TRANSITION
The actions by the Affiliation of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) might be vital to assembly the worldwide environmental targets, she famous.
The area is the world’s fourth-largest vitality client, and continues to be closely depending on fossil fuels.
Nonetheless, she famous that eight out of the ten ASEAN member states have set net-zero targets.
“There’s a whole lot of clear ambition and political willingness to embrace the necessity to transition to a decrease emissions economic system,” stated Ms Tan.
Nonetheless, she harassed that as a way to obtain a sustainable vitality transition, governments need to work collectively to make sure vitality safety and affordability.
The IEA Regional Cooperation Centre, established in Singapore on the finish of final yr, works with nations in Southeast Asia and past to reinforce vitality safety and speed up clear vitality transitions.
It’s the IEA’s first workplace exterior of its Paris headquarters.
On how the company has been encouraging regional vitality collaboration, Ms Tan stated: “We (are) very, very new nonetheless, however among the issues that we have already began engaged on is speaking to the important thing governments within the area about how finest we will proceed to assist them in assembly their web emission aim, and in a manner that is additionally very safe.”
