The second Asia Energy Transition Summit, jointly organised by the LUMS Energy Institute (LEI), the Alliance for Climate Justice and Clean Energy (ACJCE) and the Pakistan Renewable Energy Coalition (PREC), concluded at LUMS on December 7. The two-day event brought together federal ministers, parliamentarians, civil servants, climate and energy experts and practitioners, academics and activists from across South Asia and Southeast Asia. The summit reaffirmed Asia’s growing political, financial and technological role in shaping regional and global trends towards a clean and just energy transition. It also emphasised the need for stronger regional cooperation and collaboration within Asia to expedite and smoothen this transition.
The Summit featured plenary sessions, keynote addresses and thematic discussions focused on advancing a just, people-centred, and affordable energy transition across Asia. Its key themes included new and sustainable pathways for financing energy transition and climatic adaptation and mitigation, tariff and non-tariff barriers to renewable-energy trade, distributed and utility-scale renewable deployment, flexible and climate-resilient grids, governance reforms and the risks posed by inequitable or technologically misdirected ‘false solutions’.
Delivering his keynote address during the summit, Prof. Ahsan Iqbal, Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives, highlighted the central role of energy transition in Pakistan’s future development. “Clean, reliable and affordable energy is essential for our economic revival,” he said. “By bringing together regional experts, Asia Energy Transition Summit has also helped Pakistan determine its role and contribution in shaping an Asia-wide fair, future-oriented energy agenda.”
