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The Political Economy of Clean Energy Transitions
Douglas Arent, Channing Arndt, Mackay Miller, Finn Tarp, and Owen Zinaman
Abstract
The 21st Conference of the Parties (CoP21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) shifted the nature of the political economy challenge associated with achieving a global emissions trajectory that is consistent with a climate. The shifts generated by CoP21 place country decision-making and country policies at centre stage. Under moderately optimistic assumptions concerning the vigour with which CoP21 objectives are pursued, nearly every country in the world will set about to design and implement the most promising and locally relevant policies for achieving their ... More
Keywords: climate change, clean energy transition, political economy, CoP21, UNFCCC, global emissions, policy experimentation, GHG emissions
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2017 | Print ISBN-13: 9780198802242 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2017 | DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198802242.001.0001 |
