Energy-Related CO2 Emissions Growth in ASEAN Countries: Trends, Drivers and Policy Implications

Sandu, Suwin; Yang, Muyi; Mahlia, T.M.I.; Wongsapai, Wongkot; Ong, Hwai Chyuan; Putra, Nandy; Rahman, Md. Saifur

doi:10.3390/en12244650

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“…The finding demonstrates that renewable energy has positive and significant contribution on agricultural production in the short run and long run. The seminar paper by Sandu et al (2019) emphasized on the energy decarbonization in ASEAN economies because of the risks associated with greenhouse gas emissions which will increase significantly if not tackled by the development of renewable energy. The energy decarbonisation is more crucial than ever currently since the energy consumption coupled with the emissions have increased during the recent decades (Chontanawat, 2020).…”

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Assessing the effect of climate change and financial development on agricultural production in ASEAN-4: the role of renewable energy, institutional quality, and human capital as moderators

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Sethi

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Assessing the effect of climate change and financial development on agricultural production in ASEAN-4: the role of renewable energy, institutional quality, and human capital as moderators

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“…The use of coal in the energy mix is mainly driven by its attractive cost. Apart from that, the energy efficiency and weaknesses of current policies also further contributed to the rising of CO 2 emissions in Asia [27,28].…”

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The Trend and Status of Energy Resources and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Malaysia Power Generation Mix

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Environmental issues in energy policy, especially global warming, have received more attention lately than ever before. Excessive dependence on fossil fuels, deforestation, and land degradation are the three main factors that lead to increased carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Consequently, the global average temperature has doubled compared to anticipation. Various international protocols and agendas have been established, pledged to restore the global average temperature to the 1990 level. As a result, energy policies worldwide have also undergone various transformations to align with these protocols since then. As a developing nation, Malaysian’s electricity demand has continuously grown in the past two decades. To date, the electricity sector is still dominated by fossil fuels. Government incentives have been the most influential factor in the nation’s energy mix trend. Several energy policies implemented throughout the past 22 years have seen the shift from natural gas to coal power in power plants, and in more recent years, renewable energy resources. Numerous studies in the past have independently outlined the status of various energy source in Malaysia. However, they all fell short in providing the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the Malaysian energy sector. Notably, the question that remains to be answered is how GHG emissions have changed in response to the amendment in the energy mix; hence, the effectiveness of policy change in this aspect remains unknown. This paper analysed the past and present trend of Malaysia electricity generation mix and the resultant GHG emissions. In particular, this paper focused on investigating the variation of combined specific GHG emissions in the Malaysian electricity sector, in response to the policy change within the past 22 years. This provides the insight for Malaysian policymakers to evaluate the effectiveness of past policies in GHG emissions and the measures to be taken in future. The finding of this paper shows the attention on the nation’s GHG emissions has evolved over the years, following the diversification in energy mix driven by the policy change. It was also found that, on average, it took a decade for a significant reduction in specific GHG emission to be visible since the government’s energy policy implementation.

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“…However, this study also ignored the impact of fuel mix on CO 2 emissions as significant changes in fuel mix have occurred especially during the 1990s and 2000s (Shem et al 2019). Another study (Sandu et al 2019) explored the drivers of CO 2 emissions in the ASEAN countries (including Vietnam); however, as with other regional studies, country-specific insights and implications were inadequate. Besides, most previous studies have overlooked the changing CO 2 emissions from a macro-policy and low-carbon economic development perspective-an additional objective this study aims to achieve.…”

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Decarbonization of Vietnam’s economy: decomposing the drivers for a low-carbon growth

Huong

Shah

Park

2020

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Vietnam has witnessed a rapid increase in national-level CO 2 emissions due to rising urbanization, economic expansion, export growth, and industrial development. Moreover, to support the ambitious economic growth targets, reliance on and consumption of fossil fuels are increasing by each passing year. With this circumstance, this study aims to analyze the key drivers of CO 2 emissions in Vietnam from 1990 to 2016 using the Kaya identity and decomposition method. Following this approach, CO 2 emissions have been decomposed into five effect categories comprising population, affluence, energy intensity, fuel mix, and emission intensity. As per the results, CO 2 emissions in Vietnam were mainly driven by rising affluence (58.5%) and changing fuel mix (33.2%) which have resulted from improved living standards, rapid industrial development, and higher fossil fuel consumption. Moreover, population (13.8%) and emission intensity (3.1%) exhibited a relatively lower impact on CO 2 emissions during 1990-2016. However, energy intensity (− 8.7%) was the only negative driver which has resulted in the slowdown of carbon emissions in Vietnam. Based on the analysis of energy policy development, the share of renewable energy resources was still quite low in the national energy mix with higher reliance on traditional fossil fuels (mainly coal and petroleum). Therefore, to make a transition towards low-carbon economic growth, significant improvements in energy efficiency and emission intensity are necessary together with national energy mix restructuring for low-carbon economic growth.

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Energy-Related CO2 Emissions Growth in ASEAN Countries: Trends, Drivers and Policy Implications

Cited by 37 publications

References 55 publications

Assessing the effect of climate change and financial development on agricultural production in ASEAN-4: the role of renewable energy, institutional quality, and human capital as moderators

Assessing the effect of climate change and financial development on agricultural production in ASEAN-4: the role of renewable energy, institutional quality, and human capital as moderators

The Trend and Status of Energy Resources and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Malaysia Power Generation Mix

Decarbonization of Vietnam’s economy: decomposing the drivers for a low-carbon growth

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