Rabindra Nepal - Böcker

This book explores empirical studies and policies related to green finance and low-carbon technology development through country-level case studies and regional analyses across East and Southeast Asia.Contributors explore how countries such as China, Indonesia, Japan, Lao PDR, Malaysia, the Philippines, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam are leveraging green finance to advance their energy transitions and pursue carbon neutrality. The chapters examine regional efforts across East and Southeast Asia, with a focus on green technology innovation, green bond ecosystems, and renewable energy investments. By highlighting the role of green finance—including financial instruments, mechanisms, and policy frameworks—the book emphasizes the importance of coordinated efforts in promoting sustainable energy solutions and reducing carbon emissions.With valuable insights into effective practices for achieving global sustainability goals, this book will interest researchers of finance, energy economics, environmental economics, and policy.

The electricity sector's reforms aim to modernise its infrastructure, rules, policies, and procedures to allow for more efficiency and for clean energy to have the same playing field in the power competition/wholesale/retail electricity market. This will enable inefficient power to be phased out gradually. Over the past 2 decades, there has been remarkable progress in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) electricity markets that has increased the electrification ratio substantially; however, it has not achieved free market competition, universal electrification, and emission reduction plans. ASEAN aims to achieve universal access to electricity by 2030.Electricity Market Reforms in ASEAN, China, India, and Japan provides 10 empirical studies investigating and evaluating the electricity market reforms in Southeast Asia, China, India, and Japan. The book analyses the electricity market policy reform plans, market liberalisation, tariff reform, electricity trade, renewable energy integration, resource allocation, and the sustainability of the electricity market in the region and these countries. It provides policy recommendations to foster the reforms and increase market efficiency.

This book combines the fundamental forces of technology, economics, finance and policy in understanding the development and deployment of CCUS to facilitate clean energy transition and therefore achieve carbon neutrality in the ASEAN. It provides policy-driven empirical studies, investigating and evaluating multiple facets of development and deployment of CCUS in the ASEAN. These carefully chosen case-studies map CCUS in the regional and country-specific policy framework of the ASEAN; capture technological aspects of CCUS deployment by focussing on the existing and potential industrial applications of CCUS as well as focus on the economics and financial dimensions of CCUS development and deployment. This book on energy technology, economics and policy is highly recommended for readers seeking an exploratory but robust overview on the recent empirical evidences of facilitating the development and deployment of CCUS, with particular reference to the ASEAN and Asian economies including China.

The topics addressed in this book include application of welfare theorems such as competition in and for the market in the electricity sector, market failures such as lack of electricity access, analysis of forecasting models under volatility, energy resource allocation such as renewable energy and competitive market designs of energy markets.

This book combines the fundamentals of industrial organization theories based on microeconomic foundations, applied econometrics and environmental and natural resource economics in undertaking a comprehensive review of reforms of the power sector and its impact on industrial and socio-economic performance. The book provides the reader with the intellectual groundwork necessary for understanding the workings and interactions of today’s reforming power markets such as in the ASEAN and East Asia that are striving to achieve the energy policy trilemma of affordability, energy sustainability and energy security. The topics addressed in this book include application of welfare theorems such as competition in and for the market in the electricity sector, market failures such as lack of electricity access, analysis of forecasting models under volatility, energy resource allocation such as renewable energy and competitive market designs of energy markets. Country-specific and region-specific case studies are used to analyze the progress and outcomes of market-driven electricity reforms across the reforming and advanced electricity markets. Therefore, the book derives policy lessons and provides policy recommendations in reforming power markets for the ASEAN and East Asia taking stock of more than three decades of global experience with power sector reforms. The electricity markets case studies are carefully chosen and supported by extensive data analyses as appropriate. This book on energy economics and policy is highly recommended to readers who seek an in-depth and up-to-date integrated overview about the evolving literature and status on electricity market reforms with a particular reference to Asia.

This book combines insights from resource modeling, systematic reviews, value chain analysis, and mineral development impact assessment in the design of sustainable policies and practices related to the supply of critical minerals. The role of emerging technology applications such as artificial intelligence and alternative extraction and refining processes, including secondary mining, is considered to ensure sustainability in battery development and electric vehicle deployment as critical pathways to achieve carbon neutrality. Carefully selected regional and country case studies are presented on best practice policies and strategies to address the challenges and risks associated with ensuring sustainable critical minerals supply chain. The book aims to derive policy lessons and recommendations for the ASEAN region, which aims to achieve near net-zero targets by 2050. The empirical analyses are both qualitative and quantitative and include the application of econometric estimation where appropriate. This book on policy and technology options for achieving sustainability in critical mineral supply chains is highly recommended to readers seeking an in-depth and robust overview of recent empirical evidence in the design of best practice policies and strategies for sustainability in critical mineral supply chains, based on a thorough analysis of national and regional opportunities, challenges and risks. This book is particularly relevant to ASEAN and Asian economies, including China, India and Australia.

This book combines the fundamentals of microeconomic theories of resource pricing and industrial organization theories of market structure-conduct-performance and vertical integration to understand and analyze supply chains in critical minerals markets. Providing a secure and sustainable critical minerals supply chain requires an adequate understanding of the economic and environmental impacts of critical minerals exploration and use, which this book does by exploring carefully selected topics on trade risk, investment promotion, economic policy uncertainty, green growth, and supply chain ethics. Understanding and managing global economic and financial risks in ensuring supply chain security is also achieved through detailed examination of systemic risk contagion, downside risk linkages, the role of geopolitical risks, market development risks, and lessons in risk management. Both country-specific and regional case studies are included to examine the economic, environmental, financial and policy facets of critical minerals supply chain markets, with a view to deriving policy lessons and recommendations for economic regions of seismic global importance, such as ASEAN, which is already on a regional carbon-neutral path. The selected case studies are focused and supported by rigorous qualitative and quantitative empirical analysis, including econometric modeling where necessary to generate reliable empirical evidence. This book on the economics and sustainability of critical minerals supply chains is highly recommended to readers seeking an in-depth as well as robust overview of recent empirical evidence on the design and delivery of a secure and resilient critical minerals supply chain with particular reference to the ASEAN and Asian economies including China, Japan and Australia.

Green Finance and Energy Transition in ASEAN offers an in-depth analysis of how Southeast Asian economies can advance the energy transition and achieve carbon neutrality through innovative sustainable finance policies and strategic green investments. It underscores the role of private investment, the financial implications of phasing out fossil fuels, the financing of energy efficiency, and the importance of climate finance. The book examines various financing mechanisms — both debt and equity — including investments in an optimal fuel mix, green initiatives, green bonds, green Sukuk, and transition finance. It also emphasizes the crucial collaboration between regional policies and global financial systems to secure a sustainable energy future for ASEAN.

This book combines the fundamentals of economics, technology, and policy in deriving feasible solutions to facilitate the large-scale development of renewables in the ASEAN.