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- Publication 16 August 2021 Designing a Blockchain Model for the Paris Agreement’s Carbon Market Mechanism This paper examines the benefits and constraints of applying blockchain technology for the Paris Agreement carbon market mechanism and develops a list of technical requirements and soft factors as selection criteria to test the feasibility of two different blockchain platforms. The carbon market mechanism, as outlined in Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement, can accelerate climate action by enabling cooperation between national Parties. However, in the past, carbon markets were limited by several…
- Publication 16 August 2021 Blockchain and Tokenized Securities: The Potential for Green Finance Green investment vehicles are limited by multiple market failures, such as high transaction costs for certification and monitoring, and high minimum investment sizes. In this exploratory study, we apply an inductive approach based on qualitative evidence from expert feedback to assess the potential of blockchain-based security tokens to address these market failures. The tokenization of real assets or debt/equity instruments reduces transaction costs throughdisintermediation and automation,…
- Publication 16 August 2021 Understanding climate policy integration in the global South through the multiple streams framework Actions needed to mitigate and adapt to climate change have often synergies and trade-offs with sectoral and sustainable development priorities, and the recent focus on SDGs and sustainable transitions highlights the need to integrate climate action into other policy spheres. This process is known as climate policy integration (CPI) or climate mainstreaming. Enhancing its understanding as a public policy making process can provide insights for its operationalization, which becomes relevant in…
- Publication 16 August 2021 Collective Action Initiatives. Some theoretical perspectives and a working definition
- Publication 16 August 2021 Surmonter les barrières au transfert et à la diffusion des technologies climatiques, seconde édition
- Publication 16 August 2021 Collective Action and Social Innovation in the Energy Sector: A Mobilization Model Perspective This conceptual paper applies a mobilization model to Collective Action Initiatives (CAIs) in the energy sector. The goal is to synthesize aspects of sustainable transition theories with social movement theory to gain insights into how CAIs mobilize to bring about niche-regime change in the context of the sustainable energy transition. First, we demonstrate how energy communities, as a representation of CAIs, relate to social innovation. We then discuss how CAIs in the energy sector are…
- Publication 16 August 2021 Sustainable industrialization in Africa: the localization of wind-turbine component production in South Africa The increasing investment in renewable energy (RE) in Africa has been accompanied by the establishment of a number of local RE component-manufacturing facilities across various African countries. The local manufacture of RE components presents an interesting opportunity for achieving sustainable industrialization in Africa. However, limited research has been devoted to analysing the factors enabling and impeding the localization of RE component production. In this paper, we analyse the…
- Publication 16 August 2021 High-impact Opportunities for Energy Efficiency: A Case Study of Improved Cookstoves in Ghana