Policy, Financing and Implementation

Mitchell, Catherine; Sawin, Janet L.; Pokharel, Govind R.; Kammen, Daniel M.; Wang, Zhongying; Fifita, Solomone; Jaccard, Mark; Langniß, Ole; Lucas, Hugo; Nadaï, Alain; Blanco, Ramiro Trujillo; Usher, Eric; Verbruggen, Aviel; Wüstenhagen, Rolf; Yamaguchi, Kaoru; Arent, D. J.; Arrowsmith, G.; Bazilian, Morgan; Bird, Lori; Boermans, Thomas; Bowen, Alex; Breukers, Sylvia; Brückner, Thomas; Busch, Sebastian; Clemens, Elisabeth S.; Connor, Peter; Creutzig, Felix; Droege, Peter; Ericsson, Karin; Greacen, Chris; Grisoli, Renata; Haites, Erik; Hamilton, Kirsty; Harnisch, Jochen; Hepburn, Cameron; Hunt, S.P.; Kalkuhl, Matthias; Koninck, Heleen de; Lamers, Patrick; Madsen, Birger Stjernholm; Nemet, Gregory F.; Nilsson, Lars J; Panitchpakdi, Supachai; Popp, David; Radzi, Anis; Resch, Gustav; Schimschar, Sven; Seyboth, Kristin; Trindade, Sergio C.; Truffer, Bernhard; Truitt, S.; Horst, Dan van der; Vermeylen, Saskia; Wilson, Charles L.; Wiser, Ryan; Jäger, D.; Ivanova, Antonina

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“…Renewable energy (RE) is increasingly considered by policy-makers as a key energy form to support and pursue, not only to prevent climate change, but also to improve energy security, reduce local air pollution and generate employment (Mitchell et al, 2011). In addition, as Jordan and Huitema (forthcoming) point out in the introduction to this special issue, the sustained failure to reach an effective international agreement to tackle climate change is resulting in a shift of attention -and of expectations -towards national-level policy-making.…”

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Climate policy innovation in the South – Domestic and international determinants of renewable energy policies in developing and emerging countries

Stadelmann

Castro

2014

Global Environmental Change

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This article attempts to disentangle the determinants of the adoption of renewable energy support policies in developing and emerging countries. By analyzing policies already implemented in industrialized countries, we focus on the diffusion but not the invention of climate-relevant policies. We look at four different types of policies (renewable energy targets, feed-in tariffs, other financial incentives and framework policies) and consider both domestic factors and international diffusion mechanisms utilizing a discrete-time events history model with a logit link on a self-compiled dataset of grid-based electricity policy adoption in 112 developing and emerging countries from 1998 to 2009. In general, we find stronger support for the domestic determinants of policy adoption, but also substantial influence of international factors. Countries with a larger population and more wealth have a higher probability of adopting renewable energy policies. Only in some specific cases do natural endowments for producing renewable energy encourage governments to adopt policies, and hydro power resources even correlate negatively with the adoption of targets. Among the international determinants, emulation from colonial peers and membership within the EU seem to facilitate policy adoption. International climate finance is less relevant, as the Global Environmental Facility and the Clean Development Mechanism may only increase the adoption of frameworks and targets, but they have no influence on tariffs and incentives. AbstractThis article attempts to disentangle the determinants of the adoption of renewable energy support policies in developing and emerging countries. By analyzing policies already implemented in industrialized countries, we focus on the diffusion but not the invention of climate-relevant policies. We look at four different types of policies (renewable energy targets, feed-in tariffs, other financial incentives and framework policies) and consider both domestic factors and international diffusion mechanisms utilizing a discrete-time events history model with a logit link on a self-compiled dataset of grid-based electricity policy adoption in 112 developing and emerging countries from 1998 to 2009. In general, we find stronger support for the domestic determinants of policy adoption, but also substantial influence of international factors. Countries with a larger population and more wealth have a higher probability of adopting renewable energy policies. Only in some specific cases do natural endowments for producing renewable energy encourage governments to adopt policies, and hydro power resources even correlate negatively with the adoption of targets. Among the international determinants, emulation from colonial peers and membership within the EU seem to facilitate policy adoption. International climate finance is less relevant, as the Global Environmental Facility and the Clean Development Mechanism may only increase the adoption of frameworks and targets, but they have no influence on tariffs an...

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Climate policy innovation in the South – Domestic and international determinants of renewable energy policies in developing and emerging countries

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2014

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“…According to IRENA (2012), there are four categories of deployment policies, namely: fiscal incentives, public finance, regulations, and access policies (Mitchell et al 2011). The FIT policy falls into the price-driven public finance policy category (IRENA 2012).…”

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The Political Economy of Clean Energy Transitions

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“…Cost effectiveness can also be called efficiency (Mitchell et al, 2011). This paper uses semistructured expert interviews with international project development companies to explore how feedin tariffs and tenders impact two specific dimensions of cost effectiveness: cost of capital and transaction costs.…”

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