Feasible mitigation actions in developing countries
2014 | journal article; overview
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- Authors
- Jakob, Michael; Steckel, Jan Christoph; Klasen, Stephan ; Lay, Jann; Grunewald, Nicole; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada ; Renner, Sebastian ; Edenhofer, Ottmar
- Abstract
- Energy use is not only crucial for economic development, but is also the main driver of greenhouse-gas emissions. Developing countries can reduce emissions and thrive only if economic growth is disentangled from energy-related emissions. Although possible in theory, the required energy-system transformation would impose considerable costs on developing nations. Developed countries could bear those costs fully, but policy design should avoid a possible 'climate rent curse', that is, a negative impact of financial inflows on recipients' economies. Mitigation measures could meet further resistance because of adverse distributional impacts as well as political economy reasons. Hence, drastically re-orienting development paths towards low-carbon growth in developing countries is not very realistic. Efforts should rather focus on 'feasible mitigation actions' such as fossil-fuel subsidy reform, decentralized modern energy and fuel switching in the power sector.
- Issue Date
- 2014
- Journal
- Nature Climate Change
- Project
- SFB 990: Ökologische und sozioökonomische Funktionen tropischer Tieflandregenwald-Transformationssysteme (Sumatra, Indonesien)
SFB 990 | C | C04: Mitigating trade-offs between economic and ecological functions and services through certification - Language
- English
- Subject(s)
- sfb990_reviews