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- Publication 15 November 2022 Delegation size and equity in climate negotiations: An exploration of key issues Achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement will require fast and far-reaching changes, including transformative governance within the international climate negotiations. Processes and interactions within the negotiations have been historically perceived as inequitable, as low-income countries’, interests were undermined by the small size of their delegations. Since COP21 in Paris, however, the delegation size of poorer countries has significantly increased Following the Paris Agreement, the…
- Publication 15 November 2022 The uptake and diffusion of solar power in Africa: Socio-cultural and political insights on a rapidly emerging socio-technical transition This special issue focusses on the now rapidly growing solar photovoltaics markets across various geographies and scales in Africa. Herein we summarise the contributions of the component papers and position them within the context of the sustainable energy access literature. We argue that there is an urgent need for greater attention to the neglected socio-cultural and political dimensions of sustainable energy access, dimensions that are vital to understand if ambitious global commitments to…
- Publication 14 November 2022 Low carbon scenarios for transport in India: Co-benefits analysis Dependence on oil for transport is a concern for India’s policymakers on three counts – energy security, local environment and climate change. Rapid urbanisation and accompanying motorisation has created some of the most polluting cities in India and rising demand for oil is leading to higher imports, besides causing more CO2 emissions. The government of India wants to achieve the climate goals through a sustainability approach that simultaneously addresses other environment and developmental…
- Publication 13 November 2022 The Costs of Climate Change: A Study of Cholera in Tanzania Increased temperatures and changes in rainfall patterns as a result of climate change are widely recognized to entail potentially serious consequences for human health, including an increased risk of diarrheal diseases. This study integrates historical data on temperature and rainfall with the burden of disease from cholera in Tanzania and uses socioeconomic data to control for the impacts of general development on the risk of cholera. The results show a significant relationship between…
- News 11 November 2022 Ghana’s e-mobility on the move Electric buses and the policies and reforms needed to get them running was on the agenda at the Ghana Pavilion at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh. Participants from Government, financial institutions and the private sector, civil society and academia, as well as bilateral and multilateral development partners, joined the event titled Partnerships and strategies for investing in innovation low-carbon technologies: a focus on Ghana’s plans for urban electric buses. The audience got a detailed look into…
- Publication 11 November 2022 Development based climate change adaptation and mitigation - conceptual issues and lessons learned in studies in developing countries
- Publication 8 November 2022 Transformation of India's transport sector under Global Warming of 2oC and 1.5oC Scenario The Paris agreement stresses on concerted efforts to limit global temperature increase to 2°C and make efforts towards achieving 1.5°C temperature stabilization. Countries announced actions under the Nationally Determined Contributions outlining domestic mitigation actions to achieve the global target. Understanding the impact of these actions on achieving these ambitions requires an assessment of long term national level scenarios. Limited studies currently exist that model long term scenarios…
- Publication 8 November 2022 Scaling up investment in climate technologies