Cover -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Executive Summary -- 1. Coming Together - The GMS -- Growth, Poverty, and Human Development -- Energy, Environment, and Climate Change -- 2. Emerging Challenges in the GMS -- Rapidly Rising Demand for Energy -- Energy Poverty -- High Degree of Energy Vulnerability -- Environmental and Social Issues -- Energy Productivity -- Institutions and Policy Regimes -- 3. Why Integrate the Energy Sector? -- International Experience -- Advantages and Opportunities -- Costs and Threats -- 4. The Economics of Energy Integration -- The Model -- The Reference Energy System -- Useful Energy -- GDP, Energy Demand, and Price Assumptions -- Environmental and Social Impacts -- Energy Supply Options -- Technological Learning -- Demand-Side Management and Energy Efficiency -- The Four Scenarios -- The Results: Looking Ahead -- Other Scenarios -- 5. Energy Trade under the GMS Integrated Scenario -- Electricity Trade under the GMS Integrated Scenario -- Decentralized and Off-Grid Electricity -- Natural Gas Trade under the GMS Integrated Scenario -- Trade - Other Energy Sources -- 6. A Shared Energy Future: What Will It Take? -- Improving the Overall Policy Environment -- Electricity Sector: Policy and Institutional Environment -- Natural Gas Sector -- Energy Efficiency: Policy and Institutional Environment -- Electricity for All: Closing the Gap -- 7. A Shared Energy Future: Acting Now -- Endnotes -- Appendixes -- 1 GMS and the Millennium Development Goals -- 2 Energy Balances for the GMS, 2001 and 2005 (PJ) -- 3 Status of Environmental Management in the GMS, 1992 vs. 2005 -- 4 Simplified Reference Energy System -- 5 Environmental Impact Data and Estimated Costs -- 6 Energy Conversion and User Technologies -- 7 Scenario Results -- 8 Vientiane Plan of Action - Energy Sector.

9 Summary of Private Stakeholder Survey Results -- 10 Developments in the GMS Energy Sector -- 11-1 Project Concept for a Regional Project Preparation Technical Assistance Facility -- 11-2 Project Concept for an Oil Refinery-Supporting Infrastructure and Guarantee Project in Cambodia -- 11-3 Project Concept for a Regional Energy Efficiency Program -- 11-4 Project Concept for a Regional Electricity Transmission Development Program -- 11-5 Project Concept for a Biomass Generation Project -- 11-6 Project Concept for a Coal Liquefaction and Carbon Neutrality Technical Assistance Project -- 11-7 Project Concept for a Small-Scale Clean Generation Fund -- 11-8 Project Concept for an Abated Clean-Coal Generation Facility in Viet Nam -- References -- Tables -- 1 GMS Physical Indicators, 2005 -- 2 GMS Human Development Index Values -- 3 Percentage Share of Biomass in Total Primary Energy Supply -- 4 Per Capita Electric Power Consumption, 2005 -- 5 GMS Energy Resources -- 6 Environmental Pressures Facing the GMS -- 7 Forest Cover in the GMS -- 8 Carbon Intensity of Growth, 2005 -- 9 Annual Per Capita Household Electricity Consumption in the GMS -- 10 Energy Productivity in the GMS, 1990 and 2005 -- 11 Useful Energy Demand Sectors Used by the MESSAGE Model -- 12 GDP and Useful Energy Growth Assumptions -- 13 Estimates of the Costs of Environmental Damage (/ton) -- 14 Estimated Costs of Damage from Hydropower /MWh -- 15 Fuel Use and Import Dependence -- 16 Electricity Flows in the GMS -- 17 Energy Investments Required for Energy Integration in the GMS Over 2005-2025 -- 18 Overall Economic Environment for Sustainable Growth in the GMS -- 19 Overall Electricity Sector Policy Environment in the GMS -- 20 The Natural Gas Sector Policy Environment in the GMS -- 21 Overall Policy and Investment Environment for Energy Efficiency in the GMS.

22 Alternative Off-Grid Rural Energy System Technologies -- 23 Priority Actions Toward a Shared Energy Future for the GMS -- Figures -- 1 Human Development Index and Global Per Capita Electricity Consumption, 2005 -- 2 Share of Population Living Below the National Poverty Line (%) -- 3 Average Annual Growth in Energy Consumption and GDP, 1993-2005 (%) -- 4 GDP Growth in the GMS (CAGR %) -- 5 Growth in Transport Fuel Consumption in the GMS, 1990-2005 (%) -- 6 Percentage Share of Energy Imports in Total Energy Consumed in Thailand, 1988-2005 -- 7 Intraregional Trade Shares (%) -- 8 Share of Exports in Total Lao PDR Electric Power Generation (%) -- 9 Total Useful Energy Demand in the GMS, 2000-2025 -- 10 Energy Demand Under the Model's Low- and High-Growth Scenarios -- 11 Discounted Total Costs Under the Four Scenarios ( billion) -- 12 Additions to Hydroelectric Generation Capacity (GW) -- 13 Discounted Environmental Costs Under the Four Scenarios ( billion) -- 14 Percentage Share of Imports in Total Energy Consumption, 2005-2025 -- 15 Projected Additional Electricity Generation Capacity in the GMS -- 16 Electricity Production and Exports within the GMS, 2005 and 2025 (GWh) -- 17 Projected Electricity Investments in the GMS, 2005-2025 ( billion) -- 18 Retail Fuel Prices in the GMS (US cents per liter) -- List of Boxes -- 1 Energy-Efficient Lighting -- 2 Electrification in the People's Republic of China -- 3 Renewables in Rural Electrification -- 4 Vientiane Plan of Action-Energy.