Draft #1 Summary_Reader Response: "How can Southeast Asia’s clean energy transition be sped up?"
In the article “How can Southeast Asia’s clean energy transition be sped up?”, Daubach (2019) addressed the challenges faced with the transition towards clean energy, and discussed possible solutions to help accelerate the consumption of clean energy in the region. The author stated that Southeast Asia is a region with diverse stages of development, where a single solution is not applicable to the entire region. Southeast Asia is the only region in the world where the dependence on coal to produce power has increased, contributing to the production of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere. The article also mentioned Singapore, whereby utilizing conventional forms of clean energy on a large scale may not be suitable. The article then highlighted nuclear fusion, which has great potential due to its advantages. However, reducing the usage of energy is equally important, which can be achieved through district cooling. The government and private sectors should also f...