GC077
Sustainable Energy Transitions in the Developing World
Session ID#: 76829
Session Description:
Many developing countries face the twin challenges of lifting millions of people out of poverty while also ensuring sustainable energy development. With a large fossil fuel-based infrastructure, the future of global carbon emissions rests, to a large extent, on a successful clean energy transition in the developing world.
We invite papers that examine the technical, economic, and political pathways to a clean energy transition in the developing nations in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Specifically, we are interested in perspectives that address the recent growth in renewables, infrastructure needs to meet future energy demand, pollution mitigation efforts, eradicating energy poverty, and strategies for just energy transitions.
We also encourage contributions that study the role of the multinational organizations such as the WTO and UNFCCC and south-south cooperation like China’s Belt and Road Initiative or the New Development Bank in accelerating sustainable energy transitions in the developing world.
Index Terms:
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
6319 Institutions [POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES]
6334 Regional planning [POLICY SCIENCES]
6620 Science policy [POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES]
Primary Convener: Wei Peng, Penn State University, School of International Affairs and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University Park, PA, United States
Conveners: Arvind P Ravikumar, Harrisburg University, Harrisburg, PA, United States and Johannes Urpelainen, Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison: Wei Peng, Penn State University, School of International Affairs and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University Park, PA, United States
Coal mine methane in China: potential uses and benefits for both climate and air quality (489285)
Mingyang Zhang1, Scot M Miller1, Sarah Jordaan2, Wei Peng3 and Qiang Zhang4, (1)Johns Hopkins University, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Baltimore, MD, United States, (2)Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, Baltimore, MD, United States, (3)Penn State University, School of International Affairs and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University Park, PA, United States, (4)Center for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Forest, Farms and Fuelwood: Measuring changes in fuelwood collection and consumption behavior from a clean cooking intervention (495178)
Devyani Singh1, Hisham Zerriffi1, Rob Bailis2 and Valerie LeMay1, (1)University of British Columbia, Faculty of Forestry, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (2)Stockholm Environment Institute, Boston, MA, United States
Electric Power Development Associated with the Belt and Road Initiative and Its Carbon Emissions Implications (519039)
Yiheng Tao1, Haiming Liang2 and Michael A Celia1, (1)Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Hainan University, Hainan University Belt and Road Research Institute, Haikou, China
Optimizing wind and solar combination at the grid cell scale to address their variability challenges in China (549165)
Laibao Liu1,2, Zheng Wang1, Yang Wang3 and Shuangcheng Li1, (1)Peking University, Beijing, China, (2)ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (3)China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China
World’s Potential Energy Production from Microalgae on Marginal Land (581644)
Yixuan Chen1,2 and Qingtao Zhang2,3, (1)School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, (2)Guangdong Engineering Technology Research Center of Water Security Regulation and Control for Southern China, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, (3)School of Civil Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
Techno-economic scoping of gasification as a technological route to facilitate decarbonized energy transitions in developing countries (583657)
Fangwei Cheng1, Udayan Singh1, Anand B Rao2 and Lisa M. Colosi1, (1)University of Virginia, Department of Engineering Systems and Environment, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (2)Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas (CTARA) and IDP in Climate Studies, Bombay, India
Income-driven and policy-intervened energy transitions in rural residential energy sector in India, and their roles to the achievement of its NAAQS (590068)
Qiyuan Cong, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, Pallav Purohit, IIASA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, Peter Rafaj, IIASA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases, Laxenburg, Austria, Muye Ru, Duke University, Earth and Ocean Science, Durham, NC, United States and Saritha Sudharmma Vishwanathan, Indian Institute of Management - Ahmedabad, International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, Public Systems Group (IIMA), Energy (IIASA), Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases (IIASA), Vastrapur, India
Vehicle Electrification in Mexico: Evaluating Long-Term Grid Capacity Planning and Interplay with Renewable Deployment (618623)
Sergio Castellanos, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Apollo Jain, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, James Adam Mahady, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States and Daniel M Kammen, University of California Berkeley, Energy and Resources Group and Goldman School of Public Policy, Berkeley, CA, United States
