Insights
Essays drawn from three decades of practical work - leading programmes at the World Bank and ADB, advising UNDP and Danida, running an ESCO in Malaysia, and originating carbon-market projects across Southeast Asia.
Reflections from leading the Zero Carbon Public Sector programme within ESMAP's Accelerating Decarbonization Pillar - including the Zero Carbon Building primer, EDGE-certified affordable housing in Indonesia, and translating ambition into World Bank operations.
How Malaysia's Green Technology Application for the Development of Low Carbon Cities (GTALCC) programme moved from a low-carbon cities framework into concrete building, transport, waste and PV demonstration projects - and what it taught me about mainstreaming climate into city planning.
Practical lessons from working on both sides of the ESCO market in Malaysia - as an advisor to UNDP/GEF's Building Sector Energy Efficiency Project and Energy Performance Contracting Fund, and as team leader for Danish Energy Efficiency Partners, an ESCO that actually renovated buildings in Melaka.
A practitioner's view of the Clean Development Mechanism in Malaysia - including origination of the first Malaysian CDM projects, running a portfolio of 47 projects, and monitoring MRV through issuance under the Danish Government's CDM programme.
Standards and labelling programmes are one of the most cost-effective tools in the energy-efficiency toolbox - but only when the technical, market and enforcement design line up. Notes from designing Malaysia's appliance energy label and Bhutan's national S&L scheme for its 15 most energy-consuming appliances.