Electricity planning in the selected GMS countries: Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand and Vietnam

Thammasat University 2020

Bundit Limmeechokchai, advisor
Dul, Degeorge

In 2015, the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) agreed to adopt the Paris Agreement which aims to limit the mean global temperature increase to well below 2℃ by the end of the 21st century. All Parties were required to submit the Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) to the UNFCCC. The INDCs hold the pledged greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation targets of each Party to contribute to the Paris Agreement targets. The total GHG emissions reduction targets of the selected GMS countries namely, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand, and Vietnam collectively range from 177 to 339 Mt-CO2eq by 2030 when compared to the business-as-usual case. Nonetheless, the emissions gap report 2019 of the United Nations Environmental Programme states that to be able to reach the 2- degree goal of the Paris Agreement, the global annual GHG emissions reduction in 2030 has to be reduced by 15 Gt-CO2eq below the pledged unconditional NDCs targets. The global emissions gap will have to be fairly shared across all countries which indicates that the selected GMS countries will also have to reset the current NDCs targets to more ambitious targets. In the power sector of the selected GMS countries, the electricity demand and generation is increasing rapidly along with the economic growth. The firm dependency on fossil fuels in electricity generation within the four countries releases GHG emissions which leads to negative impacts on the atmosphere and the ecology system. In 2015, the total GHG emissions in the power sector in the selected GMS countries collectively amount to 166.91 Mt-CO2eq. The emissions are expected to keep increasing as the demand for electricity would increase in the future. A solution to restrict the increasing GHG emissions in the power sector is to shift from the use of fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. According to reports, the renewable energy sources technically available for the power sector are significant. However, the

Carbon budgets; Effort sharing; Electricity planning; GHG mitigation; LEAP model; Renewable energy; Text

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