Harvesting policy recipes for ASEAN’s coal-to-clean transition
Policy exchange on strategies for ASEAN’s coal-to-clean transition in power and industry, taking place at Bangkok Climate Action Week.
What this event is about
Southeast Asia is experiencing rapid economic growth alongside rising energy demand, while also facing mounting climate challenges. Coal remains a dominant part of the region’s power mix, making the shift from coal to clean energy central to long-term climate and development goals. Countries such as Indonesia and Thailand have set net-zero targets for 2060 and 2065, respectively, and achieving these will require a managed and accelerated transition away from coal.
To advance this dialogue, Agora Energiewende and Agora Industry – in collaboration with the Thai-German Cooperation on Energy, Mobility and Climate (TGC-EMC), ClimateWorks Foundation, the International Network of Energy Transition Think Tanks (INETTT), GIZ-Innovation Regions for a Just Energy Transition (IKI-JET) project, Climate Finance Network Thailand, NEXT Group and The Carbon Trust – are convening this interactive session as part of Bangkok Climate Action Week.
A successful coal-to-clean transition involves large-scale structural changes in power systems and industry. This will depend on effective policies, innovative financing and strategies that ensure a just and inclusive transition for businesses, workers and communities. Progress also requires cooperation across government, business, finance and civil society, as well as for drawing lessons from what has already worked in practice.
In this session, participants explored policy and financing options to support coal-to-clean pathways, while exchanging experiences from across Southeast Asia. We collected insights for a growing set of “policy recipes” to help accelerate the region’s transition toward a cleaner and more sustainable energy future.
Participants representing international organisations, the policy space, civil society, financial institutions and the private sector took part and also those engaged in advancing the coal-to-clean transition in Southeast Asia’s power and industrial sectors.
Programme
You can find the programme for the event in the download area below.
Graphic recording
The result will be published in the coming days.
Impressions
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Intan Cinditiara (Manager Press and Communications Southeast Asia, Agora Energiewende) is welcoming the audience.
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Dr. Supawan Saelim (Project Lead Southeast Asia Energy Policy, Agora Energiewende) giving opening remarks.
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Collection of notes for brainstorming.
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Bringing structure to various contributions.
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Impressions from the brainstorming.
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Jenn Weidman (Space Bangkok) explaining the results of the group work.
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Romil Hernandez (Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities) gives a presentation.
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Hazim Rosli (The Carbon Trust) talking about pathways from Coal-to-clean power.
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Sarinee Achavanuntakul (Climate Finance Network Thailand) in a group discussion.
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Adritha Subbiah (Southeast Asia Energy Transition Partnership) discussing with the audience.
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Siriporn Parvikam (GIZ Thai-German Cooperation on Energy, Mobility and Climate) is sharing experiences from Thailand.
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Suang Kim (NEXT Group South Korea) giving an input.
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Hyunjeong Bak (Solutions for Our Climate) gives a presentation.
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Dr. Ali Hasanbeigi (Global Efficiency Intel) in a group discussion.
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Impressions from the group work.
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Participant contributing in a discussion.
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Overview of the break-out sessions.
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Collecting thoughts.
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Impressions from the group work.
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Suang Kim (NEXT Group South Korea) engaging with participants.
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Impressions from the group work.
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Discussion within the group.
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Notes being taken.
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Presentation of the results from the group discussion.
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Kajol (Project Lead Climate Neutral Industry Southeast Asia, Agora Industry) in her role as facilitator.
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Final group photo.
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Event details
Harvesting policy recipes for ASEAN’s coal-to-clean transition
Kasem Udhayanin Building, Chulalongkorn University, Faculty of Political Science,
Room: 7th Floor
254 Phaya Thai Rd
10330 Bangkok
Thailand
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