ASEAN is banking on “clean” coal in the absence of an alternative - a podcast by Asian Development Bank Institute

Coal as an energy source in power plants will continue to increase in ASEAN and East Asia in the coming decades in the absence of a viable energy alternative, stoking fears of an upsurge in carbon dioxide emissions and greenhouse gases.

Signals coming from Washington of lessened concern in the US over pollution issues, and President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on climate change, gives developing Asia little option but to continue down the same path.

But many of the ASEAN economies are looking at new technologies that use coal in a cleaner way, such as the ultra-supercritical boiler type—USC—which makes more efficient use of coal, leading to minimal waste of the energy source and curbs carbon dioxide emissions.

Read the transcript
http://bit.ly/2h8mZLv

Read the blog post
https://www.asiapathways-adbi.org/2017/06/propelling-asean-towards-clean-coal-technology/

Author
Han Phoumin, energy economist at the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia, Jakarta, Indonesia
https://www.asiapathways-adbi.org/author/han-phoumin/

Know more about ADBI’s work on coal
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