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Deciding the Future: Energy Policy Scenarios to 2050 World Energy Council 2007 Regional Achievement of the 3 A’s
of petroleum products and natural gas,
particularly for the 15 land-locked African
countries.
• Support energy technology innovation and
a wider and accelerated deployment and
dissemination of sustainable and proven
energy technologies by incentives so that
technologies can penetrate at a faster
rate. This may include feed-in type
arrangements, but these must be backed
by appropriate regulatory reform and
rigor.
• Build human capacity in sustainable
energy and promoting knowledge, as well
as organising energy education and
training seminars to inject entrepreneurial
and technical skills, particularly among
youth and women.
• Ensure appropriate market reform that
allows a slow move to market operations,
resulting in pricing through markets and
phasing out subsidies for conventional
energy supply and use.
5.5.2. Asia
To ensure progress toward achieving the 3 A’s
within the scenarios, there is a clear need in the
Asian region to balance its complexities -
particularly those of regional/national interests
and those of the public and private sectors.
Technological and financial features of the
options need to be analysed as indispensable
factors for policy implementation. Following are
some, albeit not exhaustive, examples of
recommendations of policy options; these
include the need to:
• Establish multilateral schemes for energy
security, including APEC, ASEAN+3, Gulf
States, India, Russia, as well as the
Middle East region, strengthening ties
between energy-producing
regions/countries and energy-importing
regions/countries.
• Strengthen regional partnerships for
energy security through broader
cooperation in resource exploitation,
installations of trans-border gas pipelines
or transmission grids, or stockpiles for
emergencies.
• Enhance technology transfer/cooperation
for resource exploitation and energy
efficiency as well as climate change
mitigation/adaptation technologies,
including those through the CDM/Joint
Implementation processes.
• Focus on international collaborations and
agreements for information exchange and
cost sharing for promotion of technology
innovation and Research Development,
Demonstration, and Deployment
(RDD&D) of energy-related technologies,
such as Asia-Pacific Partnership, the
South Asian Association for Regional
Cooperation (SAARC).
• Form global collaborative networks of
research for accelerating clean coal
technologies, both resources and
commitment.