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ASEAN is banking on clean coal in the absence of an alternative

Published: Sept. 17, 2017, 10:43 p.m.

b'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.\\n\\nSignals coming from Washington of lessened concern in the US over pollution issues, and President Donald Trump\\u2019s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on climate change, gives developing Asia little option but to continue down the same path.\\n\\nBut many of the ASEAN economies are looking at new technologies that use coal in a cleaner way, such as the ultra-supercritical boiler type\\u2014USC\\u2014which makes more efficient use of coal, leading to minimal waste of the energy source and curbs carbon dioxide emissions.\\n\\nRead the transcript\\nhttp://bit.ly/2h8mZLv\\n\\nRead the blog post\\nhttps://www.asiapathways-adbi.org/2017/06/propelling-asean-towards-clean-coal-technology/\\n\\nAuthor\\nHan Phoumin, energy economist at the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia, Jakarta, Indonesia \\nhttps://www.asiapathways-adbi.org/author/han-phoumin/\\n\\nKnow more about ADBI\\u2019s work on coal\\nhttp://bit.ly/2jslQ23'