Last week I was invited to attend a conference on “Regional Energy Governance and Nexus Perspective: Challenges in the Asia Pacific Region.” The conference was jointly organized by the Konrad-Adenaur Stiftung (KAS) and ISIS Malaysia and held in Kuala Lumpur, 5-6 December 2012.
I gave a presentation on “Energy Governance in the European Union: The Role of the Market.” I spoke about the basic contours of the EU’s market-based energy policies, particularly with regard to transitioning to a low-carbon energy system. In my conclusion, I reflected on what lessons the European experience holds for other countries and regions such as the Asia-Pacific.