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A 2021 paper which reviews the regulatory and policy barriers to renewable energy in the country in relation to global growth, using South Africa as a case study.
[Originally posted at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352925085_Legal_regulations_and_policy_barriers_to_development_of_renewable_energy_sources_in_South_Africa]
A 2022 scoping paper on PtX sustainability which aims to: contribute to the international debate on regulatory frameworks for hydrogen and its derivatives (e.g. ammonia, e-kerosene, etc); identify the key sustainability dimensions and concerns; outline a comprehensive and coherent framework for sustainability assessments; provide a solid basis for the implementation of sustainability standards and certification schemes.
[Originally posted at https://ptx-hub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/PtX-Hub-PtX.Sustainability-Dimensions-and-Concerns-Scoping-Paper.pdf]
A 2019 research which argues that CCS could play a key role in sustaining over 26,000 direct jobs in the on-shore support industry that have traditionally associated with oil and gas, and around another 18,000 supply jobs associated with this industry and the emerging offshore renewables sectors.
[Originally posted at https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/67391/]
The complexities of climate science, of estimates of global greenhouse gas emissions and of their implications for climate change have not prevented widespread acceptance that global warming is a reality and its consequences potentially catastrophic for our planet and its peoples. But the convoluted processes of international negotiations and the political and economic context of their implementation mean that few have any confidence that national undertakings and international targets will be met. COP26 was a watershed, revealing the lack of progress on the most critical challenge of our time, the hypocrisy and double-speak of capitalist states and corporations, and the co-option of some conservation organisations through a deceptively ‘green’ narrative. A critical, materialist, Marxist approach can break through the greenwash of official discourse, reveal the need for systemic change and potentially serve as a focus for growing public awareness and environmental
activism.
[Originally posted at https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/48403/]
A 2015 paper which presents an in-depth and historical analysis of the key features of South Africa’s electricity sector and the stakeholders and beneficiaries operating within it.
[Originally posted at https://www.africaportal.org/publications/the-political-economy-of-decarbonisation-exploring-the-dynamics-of-south-africas-electricity-sector/]
For years the logic of turning Costa Rica into a “laboratory” on climate actions have permeated various approaches in civil society, business and the State. Things have evolved since the preparation of the national contribution to the Paris Agreement 2015. In May 2018, the Alvarado administration (2018-2022) went a step further: it made decarbonization into a central narrative for the term, turning it into a core pillar of the national development plan – the main policy instrument of Heads of States in Costa Rica. Moreover, his inauguration speech in May 2018 made international headlines as he pledged support for the prospect of a fossil-free Costa Rica, one of the first countries in the world to take such turn.
[Originally posted at https://www.elgaronline.com/view/edcoll/9781800371774/9781800371774.00013.xml]
A 2021 paper which develops three generic models that allow policymakers to analyze the impact of introducing either a nodal, a zonal, or a uniform pricing system on the three horns of the energy trilemma in their country.
[Originally posted at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3807059]
The energy transition currently taking place in the mining regions of the European Union poses many challenges that need to be addressed with a view to 2030 and 2050, of which the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions is the key one. Initial results of the research project entitled “Models of a transition to a climate-neutral, circular economy for mining regions under transformation process”, which is developed in parallel with the transition of mining town Brzeszcze, are presented. The challenges, in the context of energy transition, for both the EU and local governments were identified on the basis of EU policies and the experience of the project team from the cooperation with the commune of Brzeszcze. A “research by design” method was used to develop model solutions.
[Originally posted at https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/20/6674]
A 2019 dissertation which makes the moral case for equitably transitioning away from fossil fuels in line with keeping global warming as close as possible to the Paris Climate Agreement’s more stringent target of keeping global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. It argues that we should do so while relying as little as possible on risky and uncertain negative emissions and geoengineering technologies, as doing so might prolong the fossil fuel era and pose grave potential costs both to the present and future generations.
[Originally posted at https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/handle/1773/43733]
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