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Competing coalitions: The politics of renewable energy and fossil fuels in Mexico, South Africa and Thailand

Author: Rennkamp, Britta ; Haunss, Sebastian ; Wongsa, Kridtiyaporn ; Ortega, Araceli Date: 2017 This 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 more c b n d
Competing coalitions: The politics of renewable energy and fossil fuels in Mexico, South Africa and Thailand

Author: Rennkamp, Britta ; Haunss, Sebastian ; Wongsa, Kridtiyaporn ; Ortega, Araceli ; Casamadrid, Erika Date: 28 Jul 2017 This 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 more c b n d
Conceptualizing sustainable development as a global problem: The role of strategic knowledge

Author: Rennkamp, Britta Date: 2010 Technological 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
A consumer assessment of household attitudes, awareness, drivers and likelihood of installing solar water heaters under a monthly payment scheme in Cape Town, South Africa

Author: Paul, Timothy Date: 2013 This 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
"Development first" in the G-20 and the BRICS? Reflections on Brazil’s foreign politics and civil society

Author: Rennkamp, Britta Date: 2012 Ever 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
The effect of wind turbine transportation on wind farm development in South Africa

Author: Takuba, Raymond Chengetai Date: 2014 This 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
Enabling grassroots innovation by youth in Cape Town's townships

Author: Louw, Stefan Date: 2016 Grassroots 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
Exploring Green industrial policy in South Africa through the lens of vertically specialized industrialization

Author: Murray, David Date: 2017 Through 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
Feito no Brasil? Made in South Africa? Boosting technological development through local content requirements in the wind energy industry

Author: Rennkamp, Britta ; Westin, Fernanda Fortes Date: 2013 How 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 more c b
Implementing community renewables: institutional work in South Africa's renewable energy procurement programme

Author: Wlokas, Holle Linnea Date: 2017 In 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
Low carbon development and poverty: exploring poverty alleviating mitigation action in developing countries

Author: Wlokas, Holle ; Rennkamp, Britta ; Torres, Marta ; Winkler, Harald ; Boyd, Anya ; Tyler, Emily ; Fedorsky, Catherine Date: 2012 Climate change and poverty mostly fall into the adaptation category in the current research literature and relevant policy-making. The strong connection between poverty and adaptation rests on the assumption that poor countries produce only ... Read more c b
Novel shapes of South–South collaboration: emerging knowledge networks on co-benefits of climate and development policies

Author: Rennkamp, Britta ; Boulle, Michael Date: 02 May 2017 This 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
A political economy analysis of liquid fuel production incentives in South Africa

Author: Lott, Tawney Date: 2017 The 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
Reducing inequality and poverty while mitigating climate change: key challenges for research and practice in middle-income countries in Africa and Latin America

Author: Rennkamp, Britta ; Moyo, Alfred ; Wills, William ; Grottera, Carolina Date: 2012 This 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 more c b
South African approaches to measuring, reporting and verifying: a scoping report

Author: Boyd, Anya ; Rennkamp, Britta ; Winkler, Harald ; Larmour, Richard ; Letete, Thapelo ; Rahlao, Sebataolo ; Trikam, Ajay Date: 2012 The South African government announced its intention to make emissions data reporting mandatory for emitters of more than a 0.1Mt of greenhouse gases per year in the 2011 National Climate Change Response White Paper. The government intends ... Read more
South African approaches to MRV of mitigation actions: the case of installing solar water heaters

Author: Rennkamp, Britta Date: 2012 How 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 more c b
Sustainable development planning in South Africa: a case of over-strategizing?

Author: Rennkamp, Britta Date: 2012 This 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 more c b
Technological capability and transfer for achieving South Africa's development goals

Author: Rennkamp, Britta ; Boyd, Anya Date: 2013 Technological capability and technology transfer both play important roles in achieving low-carbon development targets and the concepts of both have appeared in national development and climate policy debates. Yet, they differ. Improving ... Read more
Why South Africa's energy-poverty policy ignores female well-being : a case of non-decision-making?

Author: Fuma, Ayanda Date: 2016 In South African urban-informal contexts characterized by high levels of unemployment, women still have a close relation to the household. Females shoulder most of the burden associated with fulfilling domestic energy requirements. Despite ... Read more
Zero emissions, zero poverty in Kenya: a review of whether Lamu Coal Power Plant promotes a pro-poor low carbon development pathway

Author: Momanyi, Joan Date: 2017 "Zero emissions, zero poverty" has become an ambitious target to fight climate change and reduce poverty at the same time. In Kenya, eradication of extreme poverty through economic growth is one of the aims to be achieved by the Government ... Read more

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