This book investigates low-carbon energy system development that integrate economic growth, environmental sustainability and social development. It explores recent developments in the energy markets in emerging economies  that highlight the need for strengthening regional cooperation across Asia to sustain energy security and reduce carbon emissions, in particular.
 
The book discusses how to pursue effective regional cooperation, focusing on both market-based and extra-market mechanisms to complement and augment country level actions. It pays particular attention to the evolving patterns of Asia's economic cooperation and integration in recent decades, and highlights important lessons and insights that need to be incorporated in the organizing framework.
 
The book uses scenario settings, meta -policy analysis and varying coefficients stochastic frontier gravity model in assessing progress in various aspects of regional cooperation. It provides a policy analysis program to guide the continued monitoring and assessment of regional cooperation initiatives in achieving low-carbon green growth in the region.



Kaliappa Kalirajan is an applied economist and policy analyst at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University. His areas of major interests include macroeconomic and trade policies and reform, poverty reduction, sources of growth, and the stochastic frontier production function methodology. He has received a special commendation award from the Indian Econometric Society for his outstanding work in frontier production function analyses.

Venkatachalam Anbumozhi is senior energy economist at the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA). He research interests lie in natural resource management, environmentally friendly infrastructure design, and public-private partnership for sustainable development. He has also taught resource management, international cooperation and development finance.

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