Huang Weiman: There is no helm in climate operation?

In addition to the climate action leadership, the vacuum is concerned, and the people of the Southeast Asian countries must further investigate the fascination of Western countries to turn to Japan.If you look closely at the data, Japan is one of the best fossil fuel funding countries in the world.

The turbulent situation will always make international geopolitical reshuffle, and the discussion of how different countries in diplomatic opinions choose border stations often emerge.

In Southeast Asia, people who are concerned about environmental issues have always closely tracked the annual climate outlook survey of a local think tank.This survey asked an important question of interviewees every year: Which country do you have the most confident of the climate goals of the world's leading countries in Paris?

It is worth noting that nearly 3,000 academic, business, and civilian interviewees from 10 Asian -level member states answered this question this year, and many people have new answers.In this survey of the Erv Isa East South Asian Research Institute, for the first time, more interviewees believed that Japan was most suitable for the responsibility of leading the leadership of climate operation on the international stage, not the European Union or the United States.

This is a worrying phenomenon.First of all, many observers point out that, not so much that this shows that Japan has begun to emerge in climate action, it is better to say that the survey results reflect the phenomenon of leadership vacuum in the international community in terms of climate action.Although Japan ranks first, the recognition rate of its climatic leadership ability in Southeast Asia is one percentage point lower than in previous years.

At the same time, people's confidence in the EU's climate leadership has plummeted, and people who choose the EU as the climate leader have decreased from 31.5%in 2021 to 20.3%.The Southeast Asian Climate Outlook Investigation Report in 2024 pointed out that Russia entered the third year after the war on Ukraine's launch, and the division caused by various uncertain factors brought variables to policies.Belief.

The author believes that in recent years, the European Union intends to promote new regulations to prohibit agricultural products involving forest destruction behaviors in the import supply chain, and also allows Southeast Asian countries that rely on the EU markets such as Malaysia and Indonesia.Punishment of small farmers.

Just last week, the European Union finally compromised due to the demands and pressure on the exporters of these agricultural product exporters, and finally compromised and decided to delay the implementation of the above "zero -destruction" bill.However, this also disappointed environmental protection elements and non -governmental organizations concerned about wood conservation. It feels that this shows that the European Union has no confidence to adhere to its position to better protect natural forests and important natural ecosystems.

As for the United States, President Biden signed and passed by the two houses of the Congress to reduce inflation. A main axis is to guide the United States to invest in the field of climate change and develop green industrial production and stimulating green consumption in the shore.The author of the above -mentioned climate outlook believes that at least this makes more people in Southeast Asian countries feel that compared with Trump ’s navigation era, the Bayeng government has more actions in the climate field, but it is not enough to promote the United States to the climate in people's eyes.leader.

Good countries in Southeast Asia still highly rely on coal -fired power generation, especially many power plants are newly built. There is still a long distance from the retirement period. It is extremely expensive and difficult to accelerate the decarburization process.In 2022, the United States and Japan called the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) that the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) showed that it was necessaryThe project plan has continued to stagnate due to the financing gap.According to observations, experts who are concerned about the development of clean energy and the progress of decarburization in Southeast Asia are looking for another way outside of JETP to reduce the support of the US -Japanese funding.

Coincidentally, the author also mentioned in an article on this column that Ma Kaishuo, a former senior diplomat in Singapore, gave a speech on climatic responsibility at a sustainable financial forum.The article pointed out that when Ma Kaishuo explained and reprimanded the game between China and the United States, how to lead to climate inaction, describing the world as a ship as fast as Titani, and now it should be found to find a courageous helm.The relationship between the great powers is always based on "unreasonable".The author also wanted to add in the article. At that time, Ma Kaishuo also vividly described that many major powers are currently starting from their own interests. Not only did they not take the helm, but they also seized the largest "cabin" on the ship.

In addition, in addition to the vacuum of climate operation leaders, the people of Southeast Asian people must further investigate the southern Asian people who have lost their confidence in Western countries.If you look closely at the data, Japan is actually one of the world's best fossil fuel -funded countries. Banks and governments have always supported the development and expansion of Southeast Asian natural gas.Recently, many environmental organizations in Southeast Asia have also protested that Southeast Asia and Japan have conducted so -called "energy transformation cooperation", saying that Japan's advocated technology such as carbon dioxide capture and sealing depends on fossil energy, which will adversely affect regional energy transformation.

The Yajian Summit was held in Laos this week to solve the urgency of the Myanmar crisis and the situation in the South China Sea. I believe that the discussion of climate cooperation will be stamped;, Continue to promote a good time for the climate process.

Between the Asianan countries, we are now wearing not to rely on the EU or Western discussion from the political leadership, but after all, the Aya'an country has limited power, and now it may not give up multilateralism or pursue the so -called "small multilateralism."(Minilateralism) and other new cooperation forms.

The author is the deputy director of the editorial department of Eco-Business, the editorial department of regional environmental media and consulting companies.