Panel:
Globalizing the Clean Energy Transition – Implications for National and International Public Policy
(Natural Resource, Energy, and Environmental Policy)
*Names in bold indicate Presenter
By providing new empirical evidence and analytical frameworks, this panel aims to inform decision makers at national and international levels on how to spur the clean energy transition globally. It thus contributes to the conference theme Evidence for Action: Encouraging Innovation and Improvement. The papers in the panel provide global and national analysis, focusing on three key areas of the energy transition: environmental integrity, technological innovation, and finance. The first paper takes a global perspective on innovation across the value chain of wind power, informing national and international policy goals with respect to the relationship between value chain internationalization and domestic technology innovation. The second paper focuses on China and the integration of renewable energy finance and climate policy through the use of carbon offsets, informing the design of the country’s emissions trading system, the largest in the world. The third paper focuses on a new international renewable energy financing scheme and its environmental, local development, and co-financing outcomes in Uganda. The fourth and final paper provides new data on the role of multi-lateral development banks (such as the Inter-American Development Bank or the World Bank Group) in financing low- and high-carbon energy projects.
While all presenters are academics, they also act as policy practitioners and advisors, e.g., having worked as consultants for the UN, the World Bank, or the OECD, as experts in the UK Innovation Caucus, or as IPCC lead authors. The session chair works as an Energy Specialist at the World Bank.
