Sustainable Energy Transitions in the Developing World
Sustainable Energy Transitions in the Developing World
Session ID#: 119562
Session Description:
Developing countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America face the twin challenges of reducing poverty and addressing air pollution and climate change. With significant potential for growth in energy demand, the future of global carbon emissions rests on a successful clean energy transition in the developing world.
We invite papers that examine technical, economic, and socio-political pathways to a clean energy transition in the developing world. Specifically, we are interested in perspectives that address recent growth in renewables, shift to electrification of transportation and other end-uses, infrastructure needs, labor impacts of shifting job-creation sectors, pollution mitigation efforts, energy poverty, and strategies for just energy transitions.
We also encourage contributions that study the role of multilateral organizations such as UNFCCC and China’s Belt and Road Initiative in accelerating sustainable energy transitions as well as analysis of potential commitments and strategies that may be announced at the COP26.
Co-Organized:
- SY - Science and Society
Index Terms:
1622 Earth system modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES]
6339 System design [POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES]
Primary Convener: Arvind P Ravikumar, Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, Harrisburg, PA, United States
Conveners: Wei Peng, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, United States and Ranjit Deshmukh, University of California Santa Barbara, Environmental Studies Department, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Primary Liaison: Wei Peng, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, United States
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