Climate Change Policies and Governance Southeast Asia and the Circular Carbon Economy: A Rapidly Developing Region David Wogan, Mari Luomi, Fatih Yılmaz This KAPSARC Discussion Paper examines six major Southeast Asian economies’ progress and potential on the road to net-zero emissions, or carbon circularity. It does so by using the technology-neutral approach of the circular carbon economy (CCE) and the CCE Index,… Wogan, David Luomi, Mari Yılmaz, Fatih
Climate Change Policies and Governance Middle East and North Africa and the Circular Carbon Economy: Seizing the Potential for Action Laura El-Katiri, Fatih Yılmaz, Mari Luomi The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is an emerging center of energy demand. Economic and population growth, increasing industrialization as well as rising living standards are all expected to contribute to a continued increase in the region’s energy… Laura El-Katiri Yılmaz, Fatih Luomi, Mari
Evaluation of Public Investment Projects An Exposition of Bilinear “Implicit” Subsidy Equations Walid Matar The price-gap method is popularly applied to estimate energy subsidies, and it simply involves calculating the difference between the market and domestic prices of a good multiplied by the quantity consumed. In the case where subsidies impose foregone revenue rather… Matar, Walid
Models, Data and Tools Saudi Arabia’s Population Trends: Insights from the 2022 Census Revision Jeyhun Mikayilov, Raghad Alotaibi Having people as a main focal point of all policies and activities worldwide and at an individual country level sets a responsibility for all countries/institutions to have reliable information on the size, structure, and dynamics of the population that can… Mikayilov, Jeyhun Raghad Alotaibi
Future of Transport and Fuel Demand Are Households Quitting Electric Vehicle Ownership? Rubal Dua, Alexander Edwards, Utkarsh Anand, Prateek Bansal In this paper, we investigate the proportion of U.S. plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) owners who discontinued PEV ownership by disposing of their PEV and buying a non-PEV as their next vehicle, which is termed PEV “discontinuance.” Dua, Rubal Alexander Edwards Utkarsh Anand Bansal, Prateek
Emerging Policy and Economic Research Priorities for Enabling the Electric Vehicle Sector Rubal Dua, Saif Almutairi, Prateek Bansal We highlight key emerging research priorities on the climate- and industrial-policy driven pathway to passenger car electrification, including both pure battery electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, using a three-pronged approach. This includes examining journalistic reports from a research perspective,… Dua, Rubal Almutairi, Saif Bansal, Prateek
Emerging Research Priorities for Enabling Aviation Climate Action: Identification and Expert Evaluation Rubal Dua, Andres Felipe Guzman Aviation climate action is emerging as a global priority, underscored by the aviation sector’s increasing projected contribution to climate change and the consequential effects of climate change on aviation operations. This makes it critical to understand the emergent associated research… Dua, Rubal Andres Felipe Guzman
Productivity and Economic Diversification Green Jobs and the Saudi Gender Wage Gap: Explained and Unexplained Cian Mulligan Saudi Arabia has made great strides recently in increasing female labor force participation, reaching the Vision 2030 goal of 30% in late 2020, almost a decade early. With labor force participation achieved, the conversation now turns to labor market outcomes,… Mulligan, Cian
Climate Change Policies and Governance Residential Electricity Consumption and Rebound Effects in Saudi Arabia: Insights into Bridging the Energy Efficiency Gap Fateh Belaïd, Jeyhun Mikayilov The rebound effect refers to the phenomenon where energy efficiency improvements lead to increased energy consumption, offsetting some of the expected energy savings. This article aims to estimate the direct rebound effect of residential electricity consumption in Saudi Arabia and… Belaïd, Fateh Mikayilov, Jeyhun
Future of Global Oil Markets Volatility of Crude Oil Prices and the Mitigation of Oil Price Risk The workshop participants voiced a number of diverse views about the prospects for future oil demand. They also clearly articulated the need for OPEC spare production capacity as a critical policy tool for the stabilization of world oil markets.
Climate Change Policies and Governance Unlocking Energy Efficiency: Perspectives and Catalysts in the GCC Built Environment The final COP28 agreement has set an ambitious target by calling for a doubling of the average annual rate of energy efficiency improvement by 2030. To achieve this goal, the current 2% improvement in energy efficiency needs to grow steadily,…
Strategic Priorities and Cost Considerations for Decarbonizing Electricity Generation Using CCS and Nuclear Energy Science Direct Muhammad Adnan Hayat, Shahid Hasan, Amro Elshurafa
Net-zero Transport Dialogue: Emerging Developments and the Puzzles They Present Science Direct Rubal Dua
The Dynamic Role of Subsidies in Promoting Global Electric Vehicle Sales Science Direct Tamara Sheldon, Rubal Dua
Electricity Sector Transitions Strategic Priorities and Cost Considerations for Decarbonizing Electricity Generation Using CCS and Nuclear Energy Muhammad Adnan Hayat, Shahid Hasan, Amro Elshurafa This paper investigates the economics of deploying carbon capture and storage (CCS) on gas-fired power plants while covering its entire value chain, i.e., carbon capture, transport, and storage, and conducting a thorough sensitivity scenario analysis. Our analysis shows that adopting… Adnan Hayat, Muhammad Hasan, Shahid Elshurafa, Amro
Regional Energy Markets Scaling Up Geothermal Power Generation to Rebalance the Energy Trilemma Energy is the vehicle that has enabled humanity to flourish. Since the dawn of time, humans have sought to find more efficient ways to power and propel their lives forward. With each generation, humanity has made progress in unlocking energy…
Finding Opportunity in Economic Power Dispatch: Saving Fuels without Impacting Retail Electricity Prices in Fuel-producing Countries Science Direct Marie Petitet, Frank Felder, Amro Elshurafa
Regional Energy Markets Assessing CCUS Potential for LNG in the GCC Zlata Sergeeva, Colin Ward As the world experiences the energy transition, traditional oil and gas producers are feeling a greater need to decarbonize their hydrocarbon production. Sergeeva, Zlata Ward, Colin
Bridging the Gaps for an Orderly Energy Transition: The Role of Sustainable Finance in Saudi Arabia As governments and organisations across the Middle East work towards achieving their net-zero agendas, sustainable finance plays a crucial role by raising capital for projects essential to achieving these targets. Robust capital markets, supportive regulatory frameworks, and transparent sustainability reporting…
Productivity and Economic Diversification Measuring Green Jobs in Saudi Arabia: Saudis in Green Occupations Cian Mulligan This paper offers the first estimate of employment in Saudi Arabia that can be linked to the energy transition. Using a task-based taxonomy devised by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics applied to detailed administrative data on Saudi workers,… Mulligan, Cian
