Regional Energy Cooperation and the Role of the Private Sector in Asia and the Pacific: Regional Cooperation in Energy Security Issues Weerawat Chantanakome, PhD Executive Director, ASEAN Centre for Energy Asia-Pacific Business Forum 2008 United Nations Conference Centre, Bangkok, Thailand, 27 April 2008
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8/3/2019 DrWeerawat Presentation UNESCAP Regional Energy Cooperation[1]
APAEC (1999-2004 and 2004-2009)Establishment of ACE (1999)Hanoi Plan of Action / MOU on TAGPASEAN Vision 2020 (1999)ASEAN Program of Action on Energy Cooperation (1995-1999)ASEAN Energy Amendment (1995); AEMEC to AMEMPriority for ASEAN Power Grid, APSA and TAGP (1994)
ASEAN Emergency Petroleum Sharing SchemeSupplementary to ASCOPE’s (1983)
ASEAN Establishment (1967)
Gulf War (1990)
Iran – Iraq Tanker War(1981-1988)
2nd Oil Shock (1979)
1st Oil Shock (1973)
EN
ERGY
SECURITY
ASCOPE: ASEAN Council on Petroleum ; AEEMTRC: ASEAN-EU Energy Management Training and Research Centre;TAGP: Trans-ASEAN Gas Pipeline; AMEM: ASEAN Ministers on Energy Meeting
Introduction : Energy Security as Reason for ASEANEnergy Security as Reason for ASEAN
Energy CooperationEnergy Cooperation
8/3/2019 DrWeerawat Presentation UNESCAP Regional Energy Cooperation[1]
Has potential to strain governments and financialmarkets
Guidance and direction to effectively mobilizeresources are needed
Concerted efforts and pursued collectivelyequates to more and solid chances to reducerisks of energy insecurity, economic vulnerabilityand ecological imbalance
Regional Cooperation in Energy Security IssuesRegional Energy Cooperation and the Role of the Private Sector in Asia and the Pacific:
8/3/2019 DrWeerawat Presentation UNESCAP Regional Energy Cooperation[1]
shared visions Strengthened collaboration; energy is both a national
and regional security issue
Eliminates any fear or perceived fear that cooperationundercuts national interest or that a build up of cooperation initiatives, mostly overlapping, alreadyexists
COOPERATION is EVOLUTIONARY as much as theneeds are.
Regional Cooperation in Energy Security IssuesRegional Energy Cooperation and the Role of the Private Sector in Asia and the Pacific:
8/3/2019 DrWeerawat Presentation UNESCAP Regional Energy Cooperation[1]
Increasing Access to Energy and Targeting the Poor Set clear national targets to provide minimum, if not modern
energy service, to the poor under a specific time table andbringing to the regional arena as international commitmentscompletes the virtuous cycle of new sustainable energyparadigm
Equal rights to energy services and equal investments Increasing poor’s access to energy to be integrated in policy
planning
Specific and clear targets, mandated or otherwise, and other
interventions including short-term subsidies to enticeinvestors
Private sector to propagate off-grid solutions or distributedenergy systems, create research innovations on alternative
fuels, and commercialize efficient technologies and bestpractices
Regional Cooperation in Energy Security IssuesRegional Energy Cooperation and the Role of the Private Sector in Asia and the Pacific:
8/3/2019 DrWeerawat Presentation UNESCAP Regional Energy Cooperation[1]