Linking the energy transition and economic development: A framework for analysis of energy transitions in the global South

Swilling, Mark; Nygaard, Ivan; Kruger, Wikus; Wlokas, Holle Linnea; Jhetam, Tasneem; Davies, Megan; Jacob, Merin; Morris, Mike; Robbins, Glen; Funder, Mikkel; Hansen, Ulrich Elmer; Olsen, Karen Holm; Davy, Elder; Kitzing, Lena; Siddique, Muhammad Bilal; Cronin, Tom

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2022.102567

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“…The literature also explores other dimensions of the energy transition. For instance, Balta-Ozkan et al [50], Swilling et al [51], Edomah et al [52], and Pregger et al [53] examine the socio-economic implications of these transitions, while Carley and Konisky [54], and Sayed et al [55] assess their broader environmental impacts. Höysniemi [56], Svobodova et al [57], and Ankrah et al [58]'s investigation into the geopolitical aspects adds another layer of complexity to the energy transition landscape.…”

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Digitization Meets Energy Transition: Shaping the Future of Environmental Sustainability

Wang,

He,

2024

Energies

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This paper presents an empirical investigation into the effects of energy transition and digitization on carbon dioxide emissions, serving as a proxy for environmental sustainability, across 28 Chinese provinces from 2000 to 2021. Utilizing both static and dynamic regression analyses, the study reveals a significant driving effect of the energy transition on environmental sustainability, primarily through a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions. Notably, this influence is more pronounced in the eastern region of China, followed by the central and western regions, indicating regional heterogeneity in the impact of the energy transition. Furthermore, digitization is found to have a substantial moderating effect, enhancing energy conservation and emission reductions. As digitization progresses, its capability to diminish the impact of energy transitions on carbon dioxide emissions becomes more apparent, particularly in the eastern region, while this effect is less marked in central and western China. The study also delves into the nonlinear relationship between energy transitions and carbon dioxide emissions, discovering that increased levels of digitization can exacerbate the negative effects of energy transitions on emissions. These findings offer valuable insights into the dynamics of energy transition and digitalization, highlighting their crucial roles in shaping environmental sustainability in China.

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Digitization Meets Energy Transition: Shaping the Future of Environmental Sustainability

Wang,

He,

2024

Energies

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“…Binder et al (2017) defined the transformation process as a series of disruptive change process and progressive adaptation process along a specific pathway. During the energy transformation process, in particular, the upgrading of energy system mode is required (Moallemi & Malekpour, 2018), while a wide change in the Social‐Economic‐Technological Mix built for energy production and consumption is also involved (Swilling et al, 2022). From the perspective of pathway dependence and innovation, the energy transformation can be divided into the low‐carbon transformation of fossil energy (Semieniuk, 2022) and the green transformation of renewables (Mahmood et al, 2022).…”

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Assessing the efficiency and the justice of energy transformation for the United States of America, China, and the European Union

Liu

Zhao

Han

2023

Sustainable Development

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A conceptual framework is constructed to discuss the Energy Transformation Efficiency and the Energy Transformation Justice for Carbon Neutrality and sustainable development. Both the Slack Based Measure‐based Efficiency Model and the improved Energy Transformation Justice Model are applied to measure the transformation efficiency and the transformation justice respectively. Then for empirical analysis, the influencing mechanism of the energy transformation efficiency and justice on the energy economy is analyzed by using the panel data of the USA, China and the EU from 2000 to 2020 with the Panel Smooth Transition Regression (PSTR). The results reveal that: The energy transformation efficiency requires a subtle balance between three essential inputs and two important outputs, while the energy transformation justice associated with five dimensions can describe both the equal opportunity and the procedural justice. Both the energy transformation efficiency and the energy transformation justice are improving year by year, and they are not completely mutually exclusive at present. As far as the performance is concerned, the EU is the best of all at both the efficiency and the justice, the USA is better than China at the justice, but China is better than the USA at the efficiency. In terms of interrelationship, there is an obvious Regime Switching Effect when the energy transformation efficiency and justice influencing on the energy economy growth. Furthermore, note that the state transition of both the efficiency and the justice can be limited by the economic situation of energy sector in each economy.

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“…This requires political-economic analyses of the energy transition and justice, along with better multilateral decision-making on LFFU (Eicke & Goldthau, 2021;Quitzow et al, 2021). 4.1.3 | However, there is greater potential for leapfrogging in the Global South RES are currently growing faster, as a unit of GDP, in the Global South than in the Global North (Swilling et al, 2022) with deep decarbonization pathways becoming technologically and economically more feasible, and opportunities for leapfrogging (Fankhauser & Jotzo, 2018). Indeed, leapfrogging potential in unmet electricity markets (e.g., Africa or SIDS) may be greater than in developed countries, with development opportunities (Batinge et al, 2019;Cholibois, 2020;Global Commission on the Geopolitics of Energy Transformation & IRENA, 2019).…”

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“…Certain studies (Kemp & Never, 2017;Swilling et al, 2022) highlight the prospects for a green industrial policy in the Global South: experiences with phasing-in low-carbon technologies in India and China show that rather than detecting new technological niches that are difficult to finance, a green industrial policy takes advantage of existing opportunities that converge with development objectives (i.e., job creation, energy access) and accounts for governance and implementation limitations (Kemp & Never, 2017). Existing vested interests, policies and socio-cultural norms, however, hinder the transition (Batinge et al, 2019;Bond et al, 2021;IPCC, 2022a;Schaffartzik & Fischer-Kowalski, 2018; P. Schwartzman & Schwartzman, 2021), while in other contexts, external actors such as private capital may bypass weak state structures to achieve leapfrogging (e.g., in Madagascar) without improving institutions in line with international development mandates and practices (Cholibois, 2020).…”

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Fossil fuels, stranded assets, and the energy transition in the Global South: A systematic literature review

Heras,

Gupta

2023

WIREs Climate Change

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Complying with the Paris Agreement on Climate Change requires leaving fossil fuels underground (LFFU), which raises justice issues regarding the Global South and its energy transition. The literature is scattered with no review papers on the challenges of LFFU in the Global South, hence we ask: What can be learnt from reviewing the scholarship on the Global South's energy transition, focusing on LFFU and the issue of stranded resources and assets? Our review reveals: (a) renewable investments in the Global South are relatively low for the scale of change needed, and such renewable deployment is more additive than substitutive. Nonetheless, there is potential for the Global South to leapfrog; (b) literature on LFFU in the Global South is limited, and much of it focuses on subsidies. However, developing countries might include stranded assets in their accounting, making LFFU appealing; (c) the Right to Development influences the energy transition's governance and justice issues: limited governance hampers LFFU, while understudied power dynamics shape transition's political economies. However, a global and multilevel just transition may have the potential to achieve LFFU. Thus, the literature overlooks (i) the dilemmas of stranded resources and assets from a developing country perspective and the implications in terms of equity, development, and climate change impacts; and (ii) the underlying power dynamics. Future research should investigate energy leapfrogging viability, critically assess renewables' additive rather than substitutive character in the Global South, and better identify the constraints to an inclusive energy transition, posed by North–South power dynamics and FF incumbents.This article is categorized under:Climate and Development > Social Justice and the Politics of Development

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Linking the energy transition and economic development: A framework for analysis of energy transitions in the global South

Cited by 27 publications

References 77 publications

Digitization Meets Energy Transition: Shaping the Future of Environmental Sustainability

Digitization Meets Energy Transition: Shaping the Future of Environmental Sustainability

Assessing the efficiency and the justice of energy transformation for the United States of America, China, and the European Union

Fossil fuels, stranded assets, and the energy transition in the Global South: A systematic literature review

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