ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENERGY SECURITY THROUGH ENERGY COOPERATION: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN SOUTH ASIA

Falendra Kumar Sudan

Chapter 1 in Achieving Energy Security in Asia:Diversification, Integration and Policy Implications, 2019, pp 3-30 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: South Asia is at a crossroads with growing population, rising per capita income, expanding economies, and increasing energy demand. With growing industrial, commercial, and transport sectors along with rising urban and middle-income consumers, the energy use is increasing at unprecedented rates to meet the ambitious poverty-reduction targets. All countries of the region are facing critical scenarios ranging from depleting indigenous energy resources for developing long-term energy cooperation plans to ensuring energy security. South Asian countries are highly dependent on imported fuels, especially liquid hydrocarbon, for transport. For instance, India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh meet less of their energy demand with indigenous sources and thus face mounting energy import bills. Maldives depends on oil products to meet its energy needs. Nepal and Bhutan have huge hydroelectric potential. At the same time, there is a very wide variation in the energy consumption levels in South Asian countries. The high potential of hydropower in South Asia can reduce the reliance of the region on importing fossil fuel, increase the demand from indigenous resources, raise the energy security level, and reduce the emission levels. Therefore, energy security is vital for improved economic growth and to attain poverty reduction in the region, and thus calling for development and utilization of locally available renewable energy along with intraregional energy cooperation to help mitigate individual country energy security risks in the context of climate change is required.

Keywords: Energy Security; Energy Cooperation; Energy Insecurity; Diversification; Integration; Energy Policy; Geopolitics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 P48 Q43 Q48 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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