Author:Palmer, Leigh-AnnDate: 2021This thesis investigates the governance of two global challenges in terms of policy learning and collective action. The COVID-19 pandemic and anthropogenic climate change pose critical challenges to human well-being as much as they depend on ...Read more
Author:Rennkamp, Britta; Haunss, Sebastian; Wongsa, Kridtiyaporn; Ortega, AraceliDate:2017This paper analyses why middle-income countries incentivize renewable energy despite inexpensive domestic fossil fuel resources and lack of international support. We examine the politics of renewable energy programs in Mexico, South Africa ...Read morecbnd
Author:Rennkamp, BrittaDate:2010Technological innovation and strategic knowledge are crucial to global problem solving. But in the current global governance architecture 'knowledge' is a marginal issue. Classical economic theories do not take into consideration that knowledge ...Read more
Author:Paul, TimothyDate:2013This paper reviews how incentive mechanisms impact solar water heater (SWH) technology adoption under both monthly payment scheme (MPS) and non-monthly payment scheme (non-MPS) conditions. The key research problem is to try understand why ...Read more
Author:Rennkamp, BrittaDate:2012Ever since the Workers’ Party (PT) came to power in 2002, analysts have been puzzled by Brazil’s economic and foreign policies. Even the harshest critics of former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva praised his foreign policy strategy, which ...Read more
Author:Takuba, Raymond ChengetaiDate:2014This thesis investigates the transportation of wind turbines in an emerging wind energy market with a focus on South Africa. The research goal is to understand how the transport and the wind energy sectors interact; as well as how turbine ...Read more
Author:Kirr, Julia SophiaDate: 2021Current efforts from national governments in the fight against global warming are insufficient and studies suggest that reaching the agreed 1.5°C target is unlikely with existing pledges and targets. Transnational climate change governance ...Read more
Author:Louw, StefanDate:2016Grassroots innovation has been recognized as a valuable means to empower local communities to address developmental issues. Enabling youth in townships to solve local problems is of particular interest in South Africa due to the poor socioeconomic ...Read more
Author:Murray, DavidDate:2017Through various policy mechanisms deployed in the last seven years, the South African government has pursued the localization of renewable energy manufacturing. These efforts are related to the Department of Trade and Industry's broader goals ...Read more
Author:Rennkamp, Britta; Westin, Fernanda FortesDate:2013How can local content requirements (LCR) boost technological capability for renewable energy? This paper investigates the implementation of LCR in the wind energy in Brazil and South Africa. Brazil tried to grow a local wind industry requiring ...Read morecb
Author:Wlokas, Holle LinneaDate:2017In 2014, for the first time in its history, South Africa fed the national electricity grid with electricity generated through utility-scale renewable energy projects. The Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme ...Read more
Author:Rennkamp, Britta; Boulle, MichaelDate:02 May 2017This paper analyses knowledge networks on co-benefits of climate and development. The world’s most sizeable populations live in middle-income countries with emerging economies and growing emissions. This situation requires political intervention ...Read more
Author:Simón Gutiérrez, Ana AlíDate: 2020In the last decades, the impacts of climate change have affected people, societies, economic sectors and ecosystems in all the continents and oceans. Climate change will make povertyalleviation harder by slowing down economic growth, eroding ...Read more
Author:Lott, TawneyDate:2017The purpose of this study is to analyse the development of South Africa's liquid fuels industry from 1930s to the present and the various ways in which the state has extended subsidies and other measures of support to liquid fuels producers. ...Read more
Author:Rennkamp, Britta; Moyo, Alfred; Wills, William; Grottera, CarolinaDate:2012This paper provides some answers to this question and outlines future research on mitigation and inequality. The question is relevant, because developing countries have come under growing pressure to introduce mitigation actions that help to ...Read morecb
Author:Rennkamp, BrittaDate:2012How to measure, report and verify (MRV) mitigation actions? This question calls growing attention in the international negotiations on climate change, because industrialized countries agreed to support developing countries in their efforts ...Read morecb
Author:Rennkamp, BrittaDate:2012This paper serves as a background document for a research project that informs sustainable development planning through the analysis of developmental impacts of mitigation action.Read morecb