Melanie Slade

Melanie Slade has spent thirty years in energy efficiency policy development and implementation in many parts of the world. She started out working in the UK Government on industrial and appliance energy efficiency and has worked with many other governments to establish similar programmes, perhaps most notably, the Government of China since the 1990s. In 2007 Mel became the Chair of Australia and New Zealand’s Equipment Energy Efficiency programme and where she led the phase-out of inefficient lighting.

Alfredo Baño Leal

Alfredo Baño Leal is a Senior Energy Specialist at ADB developing sustainable energy operations in the East Asia region. Previously, he worked at the Independent Evaluation Department of AD3, where he evaluated energy programs and led Of AD3' s 2009 Energy Policy. He has 1 5 years Of experience working on energy infrastructure sectors in Europe and Asia. Before joining ADB, he worked for the International Atomic Energy Agency, he consulted for the World Bank and ADB, and worked for an engineering consulting firm in Spain.

Building a Scalable and Sustainable Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM) for Southeast Asia: Partnership Launch

The Asian Development Bank, the Government of the Republic of Indonesia, and the Government of the Republic of the Philippines, launched a partnership to design and establish an Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM) to accelerate the transition from coal to clean energy in Southeast Asia, in a just and affordable manner. ETM is an innovative model which would use blended finance to accelerate the retirement of coal power plants and develop green, renewable energy to replace it.

The event was held in Glasgow, Scotland as part of COP26, the United Nations Climate Change Conference.