據OE網站9月27日報道，石油巨頭英國石油公司（BP）的一位高級公司官員周一表示，亞洲需要采用碳定價機制，以幫助加快向低排放的過渡。

　　BP新加坡總裁兼 BP 亞太和中東貿易和航運部門首席執行官Eugene Leong表示，能夠防止碳泄漏，將碳轉移到另一個領域的一個設計良好的碳定價框架，需要進行過渡。

　　Leong在APPEC 2021年年度會議的預先錄制的討論中表示，其在發達國家更為成熟，一個精心設計的碳價格會為轉型提供正確的激勵機制。

　　Leong稱，亞洲還可以通過增加生物燃料的使用，并將天然氣消費與碳捕獲、使用和儲存(CCUS)等技術結合起來，以“實現一種非常低的碳能源，可以大規模、經濟地部署”，從而加快其降低碳排放的步伐。

　　在向低碳未來轉型的過程中，液化天然氣(LNG)預計將在未來10-15年在亞洲發揮關鍵作用。

　　Leong表示，“液化天然氣也將為可再生能源鋪平道路”，因為其為電網提供了穩定性，而可再生能源仍是一種“間歇性”能源。

　　一些亞洲國家已經開始使用液化天然氣取代煤炭，以滿足其能源需求。

　　作為英國石油公司能源轉型重點的一部分，其重點關注的兩個領域是流動性和低碳能源。

　　據Leong稱，到2030年，BP的目標是將其全球汽車充電點的數量從目前的11,000個增加到 70,000 個。并補充道，我們已經將低碳能源發電管道的發電能力提高了一倍多，達到了21吉瓦，我們的海上業務也增加到了大約4吉瓦。

　　郝芬 譯自 OE

　　原文如下：

　　BP Exec: Asia Needs Carbon Pricing to Accelerate Energy Transition

　　Asia needs to adopt a carbon pricing mechanism to help accelerate its transition towards lower emissions, a senior company official at oil major BP said on Monday.

　　"A well-designed carbon pricing framework that is able to prevent carbon leakage, moving carbon to another area, needs to take place for a transition," said Eugene Leong, president of BP Singapore and chief executive of BP's trading & shipping arm of Asia Pacific and the Middle East.

　　"It is much more established in the developed countries, and a well-designed carbon price drives the right incentives for transition," Leong said in a pre-recorded discussion for the annual APPEC 2021 conference.

　　Asia could also accelerate its move to lower carbon emissions by ramping up the use of biofuels and coupling natural gas consumption with technologies like carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS) to "enable a very low carbon energy source that can be deployed at scale, and affordably", said Leong.

　　In the transition towards a lower carbon future, liquefied natural gas (LNG) is expected to play a key role in Asia for the next 10 to 15 years.

　　"LNG is also going to pave the way to renewables" because it provides stability in the grid while renewables are still an "intermittent" source of energy, said Leong.

　　Some countries in Asia have already started using LNG to replace coal to meet their energy demands.

　　As part of BP's focus on energy transition, two of its main areas of focus are mobility and low carbon energies.

　　By 2030, BP aims to boost its number of global car charging points 70,000, from 11,000 currently, according to Leong.

　　"We have more than doubled our low carbon energy generating pipeline to 21 gigawatts today (and) have built up our offshore business to roughly about four gigawatts," Leong added.