The BRICS and Africa's search for green growth, clean energy and sustainable development

Gu, Jing; Renwick, Neil; Xue, Lan

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2018.05.028

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“…There is no gainsaying that Africa nations have limited institutional and technical capacities to tackle sustainability and environmental, ethical issues (Adekunle et al 2020;Gu et al 2018). In recent times, it is becoming apparent that the age-long influence of colonisation, globalisation, and urbanisation negatively impinged on the African environmental ethics, indigenous and local knowledge systems.…”

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On the search for environmental sustainability in Africa: the role of governance

Adekunle

2020

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Africa remains the most affected by environmental degradation, thereby exacerbating the negative effect of climate change in the region. Little empirical credence has been leaned to the institution-environmental sustainability relationship in Africa. This omission in the literature of environmental sustainability is abysmal, considering the role of institutions and government in ecological preservation. To inform policy and research on the subject matter, we estimated a unbalanced panel data of the indices of good governance and strong institutions to explain transformation to environmental sustainability using the dynamic system generalised method of moment estimator from 1996 through 2017. Findings suggested a positive relationship between the rule of law and regulatory quality and transformation to environmental sustainability. An inverse relationship between government effectiveness and environmental sustainability was established. We recommended concerted effort at an institutional level such that policy and punishment for violation of greenhouse strategies will be optimum.

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On the search for environmental sustainability in Africa: the role of governance

Adekunle

2020

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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“…Thus, it is necessary to research the energy and sustainable development of nations. Relating to this, worldwide adopted policies to promote the introduction of energy efficiency actions and energy generation from renewable and sustainable sources [4][5][6], increasing the investigations about clean sources and strategy energy decisions.…”

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Renewable Energy Problems: Exploring the Methods to Support the Decision-Making Process

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In the current scenario of increasing energy demand and encouraging sustainable development in countries, the energy sector’s planning has become more complex, involving multiple factors, such as technical, economic, environmental, social, and political. The decision process plays a vital role in structuring and evaluating complex decision situations related to the sector, considering various criteria and objectives, encouraging adopting policies to promote energy efficiency actions by increasing research on renewable energy sources and strategic energy decisions. The high number of multi-criteria decision support methods (MCDM) available and their efficiency in solving highly complex problems results in an impasse with their selection and application in specific decision situations. Thus, the scientific community requires methodological approaches that help the decision-maker select the method consistent with his problem. Accordingly, this paper conducts a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) of renewable energy problems associated with MCDM methods based on a final set of 163 articles. We identified five categories of problems solved by MCDM techniques: Source selection, location, sustainability, project performance, and technological performance. We separate the MCDM process into five evaluation steps (alternative selection, criteria selection, criteria weighting, evaluation of alternatives, and post-assessment analyzes), and we extract the methods used in each MCDM step from papers. This paper’s main contribution is identifying the most common MCDM methods in the renewable energy area and the energy problem they solve. Accordingly, this manuscript helps energy decision-makers, entrepreneurs, investors, and policy-makers to improve their ability to choose the proper MCDM methods to solve energy problems.

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“…There is a number of studies devoted to energy related topics, but none of them conceptualizes or directly measures energy security of the group of BRICS. For instance, (Gu et al, 2018) review the BRICS group of countries' perspective on renewable energy as part of the general paradigm of human security. Focusing on African countries, they argue that the New Development Bank can ensure more effective renewable energy cooperation between BRICS and African countries.…”

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A Quantitative Analysis of Energy Security Performance by Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa in 1990-2015

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The paper addresses the gap existing in the scholarship and provides an analysis of the energy security performance made by the group of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS) over the total of 25 years, from 1990 to 2015. The research is based on a comprehensive approach to understanding energy security as the total of four dimensions: Availability, efficiency, affordability, and environmental stewardship. An energy security performance index operationalizes each dimension of energy security with three indicators, which allows to quantitatively measure the progress made by the group of BRICS in terms of ensuring their energy security. The research conducted surprisingly shows that the overall energy security of BRICS as a group of states has not changed over the years. However, each country has experienced considerable changes in energy security performance, with the most dramatic ones made by Russia (growth) and China (decline).

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The BRICS and Africa's search for green growth, clean energy and sustainable development

Cited by 73 publications

References 34 publications

On the search for environmental sustainability in Africa: the role of governance

On the search for environmental sustainability in Africa: the role of governance

Renewable Energy Problems: Exploring the Methods to Support the Decision-Making Process

A Quantitative Analysis of Energy Security Performance by Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa in 1990-2015

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