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Political Economy of Clean Energy Transitions
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The 21st Conference of the Parties (CoP21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) shifted the nature of the political economy challenge associated with achieving a global emissions trajectory that is consistent with a stable climate. The shifts generated by CoP21 place country decision-making and country policies at centre stage. Under moderately optimistic assumptions concerning the vigour with which CoP21 objectives are pursued, nearly every country will attempt to design and implement the most promising and locally relevant policies for achieving their agreed contribution to global mitigation. These policies will vary dramatically across countries as they embark on an unprecedented era of policy experimentation in driving a clean energy transition.
This book steps into this new world of broad-scale and locally relevant policy experimentation. The chapters focus on the political economy of clean energy transition with an emphasis on specific issues encountered in both developed and developing countries. The authors contribute a broad diversity of experience drawn from all major regions of the world, representing a compendium of what has been learned from recent initiatives, mostly (but not exclusively) at country level, to reduce GHG emissions. As this new era of experimentation dawns, their contributions are both relevant and timely.
List of contents
- Part I. The Political Economy of Clean Energy Transitions
- 1: Douglas Arent, Channing Arndt, Mackay Miller, Finn Tarp, and Owen Zinaman: Introduction and Synthesis
- 2: Benjamin K. Sovacool: The history and politics of energy transitions: Comparing contested views and finding common ground
- Part II. Climate Policy
- 3: Jesse D. Jenkins and Valerie J. Karplus: Carbon pricing under political Constraints: insights for accelerating clean energy transitions
- 4: Julien Bueb, Lilian Richieri Hanania, and Alice Le Clézio: Border adjustment mechanisms: Elements for economic, legal, and political analysis
- 5: Erik Gawel, Sebastian Strunz, and Paul Lehmann: Support policies for renewables: Instrument choice and instrument change from a public choice perspective
- Part III. Institutions and Governance
- 6: Stefan Cetkovic, Aron Buzogány, and Miranda Schreurs: Varieties of clean energy transitions in Europe: Political-economic foundations of onshore and offshore wind development
- 7: Shouro Dasgupta, Enrica De Cian, and Elena Verdolini: The political economy of energy innovation
- 8: Dewi Yuliani: Is feed-in-tariff policy effective for increasing deployment of renewable energy in Indonesia?
- 9: Éric Nazindigouba Kere: Do political economy factors matter in explaining the increase in the production of bioenergy?
- 10: Jonas Sonnenschein: Understanding indicator choice for the assessment of RDandD financing of low-carbon energy technologies: Lessons from the Nordic countries
- 11: David Onyinyechi Agu and Evelyn Nwamaka Ogbeide-Osaretin: An inquiry into the political economy of the global clean energy transition policies and Nigeria's federal and state governments' fiscal policies
- Part IV. Actors and Interests
- 12: Karoliina Isoaho, Alexandra Goritz, and Nicolai Schulz: Governing clean energy transitions in China and India
- 13: Michael R. Davidson, Fredrich Kahrl, and Valerie J. Karplus: Towards a political economy framework for wind power: Does China break the mould?
- 14: Britta Rennkamp and Radhika Bhuyan: The social shaping of nuclear energy technology in South Africa
- 15: Almas Heshmati and Shahrouz Abolhosseini: European energy security: challenges and green opportunities
- Part V. Incumbency
- 16: Ross Astoria: Incumbancy and the legal configuration of hydrocarbon infrastructure
- 17: Cherrelle Eid, Rudi Hakvoort, Martin de Jong: Global trends in the political economy of smart grids
- 18: Henok Birhanu Asmelash: Falling oil prices and sustainable energy transition: Towards a multilateral agreement on fossil-fuel subsidies
- Part VI. Sector Reform
- 19: Lucy Baker: Post-apartheid electricity policy and the emergence of South Africa's renewable energy sector
- 20: Eric Kehinde Ogunleye: Political economy of Nigerian power sector reform
- 21: José María Valenzuela and Isabel Studer: Climate change policy and power sector reform in Mexico under the golden age of gas
- 22: Santiago Bucaram, Mario Andrés Fernández, and Diego Grijalva: Sell the oil deposits! A financial proposal to keep the oil under
About the author
Douglas Arent is Executive Director of JISEA. He is also a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and serves on the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Steering Committee on Social Science and the Alternative Energy Future. He is a member of the National Research Council Committee to advise the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP). He is also a member of the International Advisory Board for Energy Policy, an associate editor for Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, on the Editorial Board of Sustainability, and the Editor in Chief of Renewable Energy Focus.
Channing Arndt is a senior research fellow at United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research. He has substantial research management experience including leadership of interdisciplinary teams. His programme of research has focused on poverty alleviation and growth, agricultural development, market integration, gender and discrimination, the implications of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, technological change, trade policy, aid effectiveness, infrastructure investment, energy and biofuels, climate variability, and the economic implications of climate change.
Mackay Miller is a Professional Scholar at JISEA/NREL. In addition to his JISEA research, Professor Miller is Lead Analyst for Technology & Strategy at National Grid. He previously worked at NREL, including an assignment at the U.S. Department of Energy. He has written widely in areas of renewable energy, smart grids, and regulatory dimensions of power system transformation. He is a member of the IEEE Power & Energy Society and serves on the Editorial Board for the IEEE Power & Energy Magazine. He holds an MBA from the University of Colorado, and a BA in International Relations from Brown University.
Finn Tarp is Director of UNU-WIDER and Professor of Development Economics at the University of Copenhagen. He has some 38 years of experience in academic and applied development economics research, teaching and policy analysis. His field experience covers more than 20 years of in-country assignments in 35 countries across the developing world, including longer-term assignments in Swaziland, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Vietnam. Finn Tarp has published widely in leading international academic journals alongside a series of books, and he is a member of the World Bank Chief Economist's Council of Eminent Persons.
Owen Zinaman is the Deputy Lead for the 21st Century Power Partnership (21CPP), a multilateral initiative of the Clean Energy Ministerial; he also manages the 21CPP South Africa in-country programme, and serves as a Power Sector Analyst at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. He has published widely on power system transformation issues, including the grid integration of bulk and distributed renewable energy resources, power system flexibility, and policy and regulatory issues across the clean energy spectrum. He received his Master's degree in Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, with a focus on science and technology public policy.Summary
A volume on the political economy of clean energy transition in developed and developing regions, with a focus on the issues that different countries face as they transition from fossil fuels to lower carbon technologies.
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