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Why investing in people matters
Oped, Auliya Febriyanti, Rhea Oktaqiara & Zulfikar Yurnaidi, Published on 04/07/2025
» Asean is striving to enhance its competitiveness on the global stage and readiness for a transition under its Carbon Neutrality Strategy. However, Asean will not be well-positioned to become an important part of the global net-zero economy without a robust human capital development to produce skilled, educated, and healthy individuals to drive the energy transition. Human capital has been a central ingredient in economic development, as evidenced by the bloc's Human Capital Index -- which ranges from 0.5 to 0.8 -- which demonstrates a positive correlation with Gross Domestic Products (GDP) per capita.
New plan could benefit Asean's EVs
Oped, Ambiyah Abdullah & Auliya Febriyanti, Published on 28/10/2023
» The need for clean energy technology deployment towards global net-zero emissions is becoming more critical. To meet the net-zero emission target in 2030 and reduce global energy consumption to 7% less than the level in 2020, a massive deployment of clean energy technologies is needed.