Climate Change and Energy Transition – serie

This book brings together a series of expert analyses to unravel the multifaceted challenges and opportunities within the energy sectors of ASEAN and East Asian countries.

This book delves into the intricate dynamics of energy transitions within the ASEAN and East Asia region, focusing on the practical applications of various strategies. Through a series of insightful chapters, leading experts dissect key topics like carbon taxation, decarbonization, and the impact of energy transitions on carbon emissions, providing a nuanced understanding of the regional complexities. What sets this book apart is its pragmatic approach, offering concrete applications and policy implications. Each chapter not only explores theoretical aspects but also connects them with real-world scenarios, making this an essential guide for policymakers, practitioners, and scholars.The scope of the book is broad yet focused, covering diverse topics from carbon taxation and forest sustainability to the challenges of energy transition in smart cities and comparative assessments of electric vehicle technologies. It provides a comprehensive overview of the economic, political, and environmental facets of energy transitions in the region.Intended for a wide range of readers, including researchers, policymakers, industry professionals, and students, the book offers insights at an advanced level but remains accessible to those with a general interest in energy and environmental studies.

This book introduces the theory of resource misallocation and its applications in the context of energy transition. Resource reallocation presents a potential solution, as it can enhance efficiency, boost productivity, and effectively reduce carbon emissions.

This book focuses on the hotspots and frontier issues of China’s energy and critical mineral security strategy, aiming to develop a general framework to understand the new security landscape of constructing a modern energy system and accelerating the low-carbon transition. It attempts to sketch out the core issues of energy and critical mineral security in China’s current and future low-carbon transition process and then bring forward a combination of theoretical and empirical analysis on the essential issues. This book ranges from general discussions of current essential issues in China’s energy and critical mineral security to quantitative analysis of key themes, combining the strategy and planning of resource sectors with the practical experience of the energy and mining industry. It aims to present an overview of energy and critical mineral security in China’s low-carbon transition, facilitating the demands for both academic research and policy-making. While the materials can provide useful knowledge to policymakers, the book can also inspire new research ideas in the relevant area.

The different contributions comprehensively forecast a wide range of energy, including crude oil, coal, natural gas, electricity, renewable energy, and nuclear energy, and further explore the application of energy information in the fields of economic and financial forecasting.

This book examines the social and economic impacts of air pollution, a major environmental threat causing extensive attention in the recent years. It examines how air quality can influence cognitive biases, analyst forecasts, and even customer ratings, revealing the subtle ways pollution shapes market dynamics.

Using the methods of economics and psychology, this book studies the driving factors of household energy consumption change, household energy consumption behavior and incentive policies related to energy consumption in China. It evaluates the effect of relevant policies to motivate energy-saving behaviors in residential sectors, and explains the mechanism of energy-saving policies. This book helps to build a full picture of household energy consumption of China.

This book provides a unique bridge between theoretical foundations and practical implementation of environmental economics modeling. Through a progressive approach, it guides readers from basic analytical frameworks to advanced computational techniques for analyzing climate change policies.Starting with intuitive partial equilibrium models, the book systematically builds understanding of three major modeling frameworks: Environmental Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (E-DSGE), Dynamic Integrated Climate-Economy (DICE), and Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) models. Each framework is thoroughly explained with detailed MATLAB implementations, making complex concepts accessible and practical.The book's distinctive two-part structure serves multiple audiences: Part I develops fundamental concepts through analytically solvable models ideal for advanced undergraduates, while Part II explores sophisticated modeling approaches suitable for graduate students and researchers. Throughout, readers benefit from:Comprehensive coverage of carbon taxation, cap-and-trade systems, and other environmental policy instrumentsDetailed MATLAB code for implementing theoretical conceptsClear connections between different modeling approaches for policy analysisWhether you're an economics student learning environmental modeling, a policy analyst working on climate regulations, or a researcher comparing modeling frameworks, this book provides the tools to engage with modern environmental economic analysis.

This book focuses on the frontier issues in climate finance and aims to develop a general framework to understand the financial pathways towards a successful energy transition. It builds upon the general descriptions of the current status and future challenges towards carbon neutral targets, and then bring forward a combination of theoretical and empirical analysis on the critical issues related to climate finance. Estimated by the International Energy Agency (IEA), trillions dollars of investment in energy sector are needed to achieve net-zero emission scenario. It provides a huge opportunity for our economies, meanwhile creates considerable challenges to the existing system. Both financing and investment in such an unprecedented scale cannot possibly be satisfied by the current financial architecture, which creates demands for restructuring in the financial sector, developing innovative financial instruments, building mechanisms to attract private investment, and establishing human resources to facilitate climate financing and investment. This area is essentially interdisciplinary, which requires a fundamental reconsideration of standard approaches. Aiming to satisfy the broad interests from both academia and policymakers, the contents of this book range from general discussions on critical issues to advanced statistical analyses on key topics. Authors hope to bring forward a general picture about climate finance and facilitate the demands for both academic research and policymaking. It should also provide a good guidance for graduate students interested in this subject. The main contents of this book are based on solid research outcomes but with clear policy relevance. The book combines finance theory and practices in both financial markets and energy sectors to reflect the complex nature of financing for energy transition. While the materials can provide useful knowledge to policymakers, the book can also inspire new research ideas in the relevant area.