Today’s guest is Trang Nguyen, Southeast Asia Lead at the Climateworks Centre in Melbourne.

Her background as an economist spans the public, private, and development sectors - including the UK in Vietnam, KPMG, and GIZ - giving her unique insight into energy investment and financing.

We discussed the opportunities and challenges of Vietnam’s net-zero commitment, the Just Energy Transition Partnership and its potential role in catalyzing clean energy financing, the importance of project bankability and currency-based investment risks, and the prospect of Vietnam becoming a clean energy manufacturing hub.

Further reading from Trang and her colleagues:

The supply chain of key decarbonisation technologies in Vietnam

Enabling investment for Vietnam’s energy transition

Energy transitions in Vietnam and Indonesia: Building blocks for successful Just Energy Transition Partnerships

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