ABSTRACT
This chapter presents how the new regime can help in meeting the energy needs of major developing countries of Asia. It assesses how the demand for energy is likely to grow in a few key countries in Asia, if a business-as-usual path is followed. At the same time it must be emphasized that energy use in India as in other developing countries would remain substantially lower than levels seen today or that can be projected for developed countries in corresponding periods in the future. Technology upgrading is a function, not only of simple technical factors, but a whole range of infrastructural realities, skill levels and institutional issues. The government or the petroleum industry in the country concerned would have to mobilise such investments as required. In addition, consumers would have to make investments in new stoves and connections to use the petroleum product in question for reducing traditional fuel use.
