The world continues to break records for energy-related emissions and global temperatures, as well as records for clean energy investment and deployment. Without the surge of clean energy technologies, emissions growth since the Covid-19 pandemic would have been three times larger. Yet the world is still falling far short of its Paris Agreement goals to limit global warming. Ambitious global energy transition goals have been developed by the Conference of Parties (COP). These include, among others, reaching global net zero emissions in the energy sector by 2050; transitioning away from fossil fuels in line with net zero emissions by 2050; tripling the global installed capacity of renewable energy by 2030; doubling of the rate of energy efficiency improvement by 2030; and accelerating the deployment of other critical low-emissions technologies.

The design, implementation and evaluation of these global energy transition goals will be the focus of local, country and regional efforts in the Asia Pacific region. In this webinar, the speakers will discuss aspects of these challenges in this region and, specifically, in Vietnam.