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New podcast episode explores energy crisis impacts in Southeast Asia
…the Middle East is affecting people across Southeast Asia – a region that has been hit particularly hard from an energy perspective by the near closure of the Strait of Hormuz.Now available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, the episode features Sue-Ern Tan, Head of the IEA’s Regional Cooperation Centre in Singapore. She explains why countries in Southeast Asia are especially exposed to current energy supply disruptions, how price increases and fuel shortages are already affecting daily life, and the steps governments are taking to cushion the impacts.The Everything Energy podcast offers perspectives on a wide range of leading global energy issues…
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New podcast episode explores how energy crisis is shaping investment trends
…demand with domestic energy sources – they discuss the implications across different sectors, including oil, gas, coal, nuclear, renewables and electricity. They also speak about how investment in energy efficiency is evolving and how the crisis could affect the cost of capital for energy projects.The Everything Energy podcast offers insights and perspectives from the IEA on leading global energy issues. In recent episodes, IEA experts have unpacked the evolving relationship between energy and AI and the state of hydropower, as well as a number of topics linked to the ongoing energy crisis stemming from the war in the Middle East – including…
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Strait of Hormuz crisis reinforces need for Southeast Asia to tackle major energy vulnerabilities
…come from Middle East crude oil. As a result, the virtual shutdown of energy shipments through the Strait of Hormuz has had major consequences for countries across the region – leading to shortages of petrochemical feedstocks, chemical products and the liquefied petroleum gas that many households use for cooking.For now, governments are focused on managing short-term impacts by instituting emergency measures to curb demand, such as encouraging residents to work from home and use public transport. Yet based on the region’s pre-crisis trajectory, the report finds it will be equally important to address the deeper energy system…
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Bruno Idini
Energy Analyst. Bruno Idini leads the IEA’s work on SDG 7 within the World Energy Outlook team. He was one of the lead authors on the IEA’s Africa Energy Outlook, and the IEA’s World Energy Employment among other reports. He coordinates IEA’s co-custodianship on Tracking Progress on Sustainable Development Goal 7. Bruno also supports senior management engagement with external partners, drafting speeches and briefing notes. Prior to joining the IEA, Bruno carried out various research projects on energy, including on small-scale hydropower systems in Peru, and the opportunities and challenges for solar PV in Ghana.
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Mei Han
Former Energy Analyst.
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Adam Brown
Former Senior Energy Analyst.
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World and regional investment data for supply and end-use The World Energy Investment 2021 datafile includes world and regional investment data for supply (fossil fuels, renewables, electricity networks, other) and end-use (energy efficiency, renewables and other). A full set of figures from the report is also available for download below.
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In 2007, the Icelandic government released a Climate Change Strategy conceived as a framework for action and government involvement in climate change issues, and setting forth a long-term goal of reducing net greenhouse gas emissions by 50 to 75% of 1990 levels by 2050.
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Sue-Ern Tan
Head of the IEA Regional Cooperation Centre. Sue-Ern Tan is the Head of the IEA Regional Cooperation Centre established in Singapore at the end of 2024. The Office is the first outside of the IEA’s Paris headquarters in its 50-year history and will provide policy guidance, technical assistance, training and capacity building across areas such as scaling-up the deployment of renewables and other clean energy technologies, increasing cross-border power trade, and improving access to finance for clean energy investment.Prior to joining the IEA, Ms Tan worked at Shell plc in senior climate and energy roles at Shell’s headquarters in London and The Hague and most recently in Singapore as the Head of Policy and Advocacy. Ms Tan practiced as a lawyer, worked as Ministerial adviser on energy in the Australian Government and was the Deputy CEO of a minerals trade association in Australia. She graduated from University of New South Wales in Australia with a Co...
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Daniel Morris
Clean Energy Lead, Climate Investment Funds. As the Senior Climate Change Specialist and Clean Energy Lead, he works with the Climate Investment Funds’ partners to help deliver transformational change in the energy systems of developing countries.Daniel’s 12 years of experience in working to build economic and policy solutions to the climate crisis are also derived from his previous roles as an Advisor to the US Executive Director of the World Bank and as a Policy Analyst in the US Treasury. In the latter position, he helped to execute the agency’s responsibilities related to the United States’ climate and energy agenda. Daniel has a Master’s degree in Environmental Science and Management, Political Economy of the Environment from the Bren School of Environmental Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Science from Northern Arizona University.
