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An Analysis of the Links between Foreign Aid and Co2 Emissions in CitiesFrom the book: Aid Effectiveness for Environmental Sustainability
Foreign aid Emissions Green citiesJournal Article
Producing Biofuels in Low-Income Countries: An Integrated Environmental and Economic Assessment for TanzaniaThis paper jointly evaluates the greenhouse gas emissions and economic impacts from producing biofuels in Tanzania...
Agriculture Environmental aspects (Economic development) Equilibrium (Economics)Working Paper
Is feed-in-tariff policy effective for increasing deployment of renewable energy in Indonesia?To accelerate the deployment of renewable energy technologies and to secure the electricity supply, the Government of Indonesia has issued several feed-in-tariff regulations for various renewable energy sources, which were previously predominated by ...
Environmental policy Environmental taxation Power resourcesWorking Paper
The political economy of clean energy transitions at sub-national level: Understanding the role of international climate regimes in energy policy in two Brazilian statesThis paper examines the political economy aspects, particularly the influence of the Clean Development Mechanism, in clean energy and climate change policies in the states of Bahia and Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil...
Renewable energy sources Sustainable development Climate changeWorking Paper
Towards a political economy framework for wind power: Does China break the mould?We propose a general taxonomy of the political economy challenges to wind power development and integration, highlighting the implications in terms of actors, interests, and risks...
Renewable energy sourcesWorking Paper
An inquiry into the political economy of the global clean energy transition policies and Nigeria’s federal and state governments’ fiscal policiesIn order to implement clean energy transition programmes, the national and sub-national governments in Nigeria will incur some cost. In the same way, failure to implement the policies will come with some costs...
Fiscal policy Nonrenewable natural resources Renewable energy sourcesWorking Paper
The effects of climate risk on hydropower P3 contract value: Preliminary study of the Inga 3 DamLarge hydropower dams are at the centre of a debate weighing the value and costs of renewable energy against the risks of climate change...
Environment Renewable energy sourcesWorking Paper
Implementing EU renewable energy policy at the subnational level: Navigating between conflicting interestsThe European Union (EU) has set targets for gradually reducing greenhouse gas emissions through 2050. One of the instruments involved is the 2009 Renewable Energy Directive, which specifies a 20 per cent renewable energy target for the EU by 2020...
Forests and forestry Renewable energy sources State governmentsWorking Paper
Governing clean energy transitions in China and India: A comparative political economy analysisChina and India will have to radically transform their electric power systems in order to decouple economic growth from unsustainable resource consumption...
Economic growth Environmental policy Political scienceWorking Paper
The social shaping of nuclear energy technology in South AfricaThis paper analyses the question why the South African government intends to procure nuclear energy technology, despite affordable and accessible fossil and renewable energy alternatives...
Environmental policy Renewable energy sources TechnologyWorking Paper
Varieties of clean energy transitions in Europe: Political-economic foundations of onshore and offshore wind developmentThe paper introduces a novel framework for classifying different types of national political economies...
Capitalism Industrial productivity Renewable energy sourcesWorking Paper
The political economy of energy innovationThis paper empirically investigates the effects of environmental policy, institutions, political orientation, and lobbying on energy innovation and finds that they significantly affect the incentives to innovate and create cleaner energy efficient te...
Environmental policy Political science Renewable energy sourcesWorking Paper
Post-apartheid electricity policy and the emergence of South Africa’s renewable energy sectorThis paper situates South Africa’s new renewable energy sector within the context of the country’s electricity system and in turn its unique political economy...
Renewable energy sourcesWorking Paper
Renewable energy in the Brazilian Amazon: The drivers of political economy and climateUnderstanding the political economic drivers of energy planning in the Brazilian Amazon is critical since the forest is increasingly vulnerable to destruction and related, increased poverty...
Quantitative research Renewable energy sources Sustainable developmentWorking Paper
Political economy of Nigerian power sector reformThe Nigerian power sector reform is necessitated by the chronic poor performance of the sector and has as its compass the 2005 Electric Power Sector Reform Act and the Roadmap for Power Sector Reform 2010...
Political science Economic power PrivatizationWorking Paper
Support policies for renewables: Instrument choice and instrument change from a Public Choice perspectiveThis paper frames the transition towards clean energies as a sequential process of instrument choice and instrument change. First, regulators decide how to initiate the transition away from fossil energies...
Environmental policy Management Renewable energy sources