City living but still energy poor: Household energy transitions under rapid urbanization in Myanmar

Aung, Ther; Jagger, Pamela; Hlaing, Kay Thwe; Han, Khin; Kobayashi, Wakako

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2021.102432

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“…The energy transition can be explained by the remoteness and dispersion of the population between rural and urban areas, which have different difficulties in accessing clean energy (Aung et al, 2022). Thus, urban areas have fewer difficulties in obtaining clean cooking facilities than rural areas.…”

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Do remittances align with energy transition in Africa? An approach with the level of income of countries

Abba Yadou,

Ntang,

Tchio Tchieutsouah

et al. 2023

Natural Resources Forum

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The main objective of this paper was to highlight the nexus between migrant remittances and energy transition in a panel of 45 African countries from 2000 to 2020. The study utilized several estimation techniques ranging from fixed and random effects to two‐stage least square. The empirical findings suggest that remittances reduce energy transition in African countries. However, the growth of remittances reverses this relationship. There is therefore an U‐shaped relationship between remittances and energy transition in Africa. Furthermore, when disaggregating countries by income level, the results reveal that in low‐income countries, remittances reduce energy transition, but this effect is reversed in low‐ and middle‐income countries. Remittances are therefore a determinant in the choice of households for the process of energy transition. Thus, in order to take advantage of this relationship, African countries need to emphasize policies that can increase the flow of remittances by improving their financial system. In addition, migrant remittances contribute to improving access to modern, reliable, and affordable energy services through income growth of remittance‐receiving households.

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Section: Urbanizationmentioning

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Do remittances align with energy transition in Africa? An approach with the level of income of countries

Abba Yadou,

Ntang,

Tchio Tchieutsouah

et al. 2023

Natural Resources Forum

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“…Prior literature on drivers of improved and clean cooking energy access has largely focused on rural settings in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), where clean energy access is generally lowest [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12], with much lesser evidence from urban areas [13][14][15][16][17]. However, clean cooking fuel use remains far from universal in many urban LMIC settings, and use of polluting fuels persists alongside high rates of electricity access and ample availability of a variety of alternative cooking fuels [1].…”

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Urban demand for cooking fuels in two major African cities and implications for policy

Das,

le Roux,

Mulwa

et al. 2024

PLOS Sustain Transform

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Nearly 2.3 billion people lack access to clean cooking fuels and technologies worldwide, representing a critical failure to achieve SDG7’s cooking energy access goal. In Sub-Saharan Africa, dependence on polluting cooking fuels is particularly high, resulting in considerable environmental, health, and time-related costs. Progress in the region has been greatest in urban areas, partly because incomes are higher and alternative fuels more widely available than in rural areas, but understanding of the dynamics of urban cooking energy transitions remains limited, and reasons for the divergent paths of different cities are unclear. Our primary objective is, therefore, to understand differences in the demand for several fuels among low-income households in two contrasting cities–Nairobi, where the transition is well advanced (N = 354), and Dar es Salaam, where progress has been slower (N = 1,100). We conducted a double-bounded, dichotomous choice contingent valuation experiment to elucidate how urban households would respond to changes in cooking fuels’ prices. Our analysis shows that fuel price responses vary across the income distribution and across these cities. Willingness to pay for the most commonly used cooking fuel in Nairobi–liquefied petroleum gas–is nearly twice that in Dar es Salaam, where more households prefer charcoal. In Dar es Salaam, low-income charcoal users appear especially entrenched in their cooking fuel choice. Our results have important implications for the effectiveness of different policy tools (e.g., bans, taxes, or clean fuel subsidies), since responses to pricing policies will depend on these varying price sensitivities, as well as targeting and the readiness of the supply chain (including policy enablers of supply) to meet increased demand. In conclusion, though policies are commonly designed at the national-level, policy-makers need to understand nuances in the local demand context very well when choosing instruments that best support energy transition among their most vulnerable citizens.

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“…This means that income poverty still affects many households in SSA. Informal and low-income households claims energy access challenge due to cost of clean cooking fuels(Aung et al, 2022).…”

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“…One of the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations (UN) recognizes access to affordable, clean energy (SDG7) particulary renewable energy and clean cooking fuels. It is also worth noting that in the African context, access to clean, affordable, and safe energy helps reduce inequalities (SDG 10), improve health (SDG3), promote sustainable cities and communities (SDG 11) and climate action(Khavari et al, 2023;Aung et al, 2022). If energy poverty, particularly for cleancooking fuels, stands at 23% (see Table…”

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Are clean energy technologies a panacea for environmental sustainability in sub-Saharan African countries?

Byaro

Dimoso

Rwezaula

2023

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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This study examines the impact of clean energy technologies on environmental sustainability in 29 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries while controlling for income, industrialization and trade from 2002 to 2018. We used the generalized quantile regression,which controls variable endogeneity using lagged instruments. In addition, Bayesian panel regression was used for robustness checks. We used the load capacity factor (LCF) as a broad measure of environmental sustainability that captures both nature's supply and man's demand for the environment. The ndings show that clean energy technologies (clean fuels and renewable energy), have positive and statistically signi cant effects on environmental sustainability for nearly all quantiles in SSA. The ndings are still the same after verifying the robustness analysis, showing that the coe cients for clean fuels and renewable energy technologies in quantile regression are within the Bayesian probability credible intervals and all have positive impacts on ensuring environmental sustainability in SSA. Furthermore, the results show that economic growth (income) has asymmetric (both negative and positive) effects on environmental sustainability across different quantile, con rming the Load Capacity Curve (LCC) hypothesis in SSA while accounting for clean energy technologies in the model. The ndings further indicate that industrialization and trade have heterogeneous impacts on environmental sustainability. Overall, our ndings imply that clean energy technologies improve environmental sustainability in SSA. Our main recommendation to policymakers is that sub-Saharan Africa needs to reduce the cost of energy services (i.e., renewable energy and clean fuels for cooking) in order to achieve greater environmental sustainability.2.1 Empirical literature review

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City living but still energy poor: Household energy transitions under rapid urbanization in Myanmar

Cited by 17 publications

References 46 publications

Do remittances align with energy transition in Africa? An approach with the level of income of countries

Do remittances align with energy transition in Africa? An approach with the level of income of countries

Urban demand for cooking fuels in two major African cities and implications for policy

Are clean energy technologies a panacea for environmental sustainability in sub-Saharan African countries?

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