Notes from the 1st Clean Fuels and Vehicles Forum in the ASEAN Region

摘要

The 1st Clean Fuels and Vehicles Forum in the ASEAN Region brought together key stakeholders to engage, network, and discuss stricter and harmonized clean fuels and vehicles standards at the regional level. The Southeast Asian road transport sector consumes an estimated 139,874 kilotons of oil annually. As a result of a rapid increase of private cars and motorcycle use in recent years, the region's energy demand has greatly expanded and current transport policies fall short to meet the transport emission reductions targets for carbon dioxide (CO~2) by 2050. While most Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries have set cleaner vehicle and fuel quality roadmaps, there's a wide variation between standards and their implementation among the different member countries, which was one of the topics of discussion during the 1 st Clean Fuels and Vehicles Forum in the ASEAN Region, held November 2013 in Singapore.