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HIGHLIGHTS
PVMI 2025 UNDER THE INTERNATIONAL GREEN ENERGY EXPO AND CONFERENCE
FOUR ESI STAFF MEMBERS ARE RANKED AMONG THE WORLD'S TOP SCIENTISTS IN 2025
THE 1ST TECHNICAL WORKSHOP UNDER THE EU-ASEAN ENERGY DIALOGUE
Inaugural Cross-Border Electricity Trade (CBET) Workshop hosted by ESI
ESI Staff Named Highly Cited Researchers 2024
ESI Hosts Wuhan University Delegation for Workshop on Green Development of Asian Countries
ESI@NUS and ACE Leads Discussion on Decarbonising Southeast Asia at SIEW 2024
In a global context focused on achieving net-zero target, ASEAN plays a crucial role in transitioning towards a decarbonised energy sector. The region’s reliance on fossil fuels, particularly coal and oil, has created significant regional and global environmental issues. Rapid economic growth in ASEAN, along with high energy demand, necessitates strategic planning of the renewable energy mix, grid modernisation, investment and collaboration of financing from public and private sectors, and socio-economic benefits from domestic and regional perspectives. To address this challenge, the Energy Studies Institute at the National University of Singapore (ESI@NUS) and the ASEAN Centre for Energy (ACE), recently co-hosted a roundtable, "Decarbonising Asia: Energy Transformation”, during Singapore International Energy Week (SIEW) 2024.
Visit by Fudan University and Joint Workshop
PUBLICATIONS
DECARBONISATION, NET ZERO AND THE ESG OF BUSINESS
SEMINARDecarbonisation, Net Zero and the ESG of Business
Professor Aoife Foley
Thursday, 16 February 2023
13:30 – 14:30 hrs (Singapore Time, GMT+8)
ESI Conference Room
29 Heng Mui Keng Terrace
Block A, #10-01, Singapore 119620
Abstract
Emissions reduction hinges on dependence on massive growth in decarbonisation technologies within the framework of our understanding of our planetary hydrologic and planetary weather cycles. However, the increasing occurrence of extreme and variable weather events and the recent energy crisis has raised warning flags. Governments have developed many policies to drive this net zero or carbon neutrality transition. But what is, can or will business do to ensure this decarbonisation journey in an equitable manner? What way will environment sustainability governance by business and government regulatory agencies be managed to check the business systems. This seminar provides a personal perspective of the challenges businesses face, as well as other key stakeholders as we attempt to overcome the volatile unpredictable impacts of climate change on our natural and built environments.
About the Speaker
Professor Aoife Foley is Chair in Net Zero at The University of Manchester and Editor in Chief of Elsevier’s Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, a member of the Editorial Board of Elsevier’s Renewable Energy and an Editorial Panel member of the Institution of Civil Engineers Proceedings in Transport. She has a h-index of 36 (Scopus), 36 (Web of Science) and 39 (Google Scholar). She also has published over 100 international peer reviewed journal articles and numerous conference papers. Her research income includes competitive national and international awards (e.g. EPSRC, US-Ireland SFI NSF DfE & EC H2020), government (e.g. Department for the Economy) and industry funding (e.g. Carbon Trading Ltd., SSE) totalling £2.6M.
