A volume on the political economy of clean energy transition in developed and developing regions, with a focus on the issues that different countries face as they transition from fossil fuels to lower carbon technologies.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. 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 stable 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 will attempt to design and implement the most promising and locally relevant policies for achieving their agreed contribution to global mitigation. These policies will vary dramatically across countries as they embark on an unprecedented era of policy experimentation in driving a clean energy transition. This book steps into this new world of broad-scale and locally relevant policy experimentation. The chapters focus on the political economy of clean energy transition with an emphasis on specific issues encountered in both developed and developing countries. The authors contribute a broad diversity of experience drawn from all major regions of the world, representing a compendium of what has been learned from recent initiatives, mostly (but not exclusively) at country level, to reduce GHG emissions. As this new era of experimentation dawns, their contributions are both relevant and timely.

List of Figures List of Tables List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Part I The Political Economy of Clean Energy Transitions 1 Introduction and Synthesis 2 The History and Politics of Energy Transitions Part II Climate Policy 3 Carbon Pricing under Political Constraints 4 Border Adjustment Mechanisms 5 Support Policies for Renewables: Instrument Choice and Instrument Change from a Public Choice Perspective Part III Institutions and Governance 6 Varieties of Clean Energy Transitions in Europe 7 The Political Economy of Energy Innovation 8 Is Feed-In-Tariff Policy Effective for Increasing Deployment of Renewable Energy in Indonesia? 9 Do Political Economy Factors Matter in Explaining the Increase in the Production of Bioenergy? 10 Understanding Indicator Choice for the Assessment of RD&D Financing of Low-Carbon Energy Technologies 11 An Enquiry into the Political Economy of the Global Clean Energy Transition Policies and Nigeria’s Federal and State Governments’ Fiscal Policies Part IV Actors and Interests 12 Governing Clean Energy Transitions in China and India 13 Towards a Political Economy Framework for Wind Power 14 The Social Shaping of Nuclear Energy Technology in South Africa 15 European Energy Security Part V Incumbency 16 Incumbency and the Legal Configuration of Hydrocarbon Infrastructure 17 Global Trends in the Political Economy of Smart Grids 18 Falling Oil Prices and Sustainable Energy Transition Part VI Sector Reform 19 Post-Apartheid Electricity Policy and the Emergence of South Africa’s Renewable Energy Sector 20 Political Economy of Nigerian Power Sector Reform 21 Climate Change Policy and Power Sector Reform in Mexico under the Golden Age of Gas 22 Sell the Oil Deposits! A Financial Proposal to Keep the Oil Underground in the Yasuni National Park, Ecuador Part VII Social Inclusion 23 Integrating Clean Energy Use in National Poverty Reduction Strategies 24 Renewable Energy in the Brazilian Amazon 25 The Political Economy of Household Thermal Energy Choices in Developing Countries Part VIII Regional Dynamics 26 The Linkages of Energy, Water, and Land Use in Southeast Asia 27 The Political Economy of Clean Energy Transitions at Sub-National Level 28 Implementing EU Renewable Energy Policy at the Subnational Level Part IX Moving Forward 29 Moving Forward Index