GC080
Sustainable Energy Transitions in the Developing World

Session ID#: 159031

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 policy approaches in line with recommendations in the latest IPCC report on limiting warming below 2⁰C. We specifically invite submissions reporting on case studies of effective mitigation or adaptation successes at the local or regional scales in developing countries.

Index Terms:

1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1637 Regional climate change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES]
6334 Regional planning [POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES]

Primary Convener:  Arvind P Ravikumar, University of Texas at Austin, Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, United States
Conveners:  Wei Peng, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, School of International Affairs and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University Park, United States and Ranjit Deshmukh, University of California Santa Barbara, Environmental Studies Department, Santa Barbara, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Xinyuan Huang, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, United States
 
Transportation Decarbonization by Compact Urban Development in Chinese Cities and its Air Quality, Human Health, and Energy Saving Co-benefits (1062277)
Xiangwen Fu1, Jing Cheng2, Liqun Peng1, Mi Zhou1, Dan Tong3 and Denise L Mauzerall4, (1)Princeton University, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, United States, (3)Department of Earth System Science,Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, (4)Princeton University, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton, United States
 
Nigeria’s National Energy Transition Roadmap: Reaching Net-Zero by 2060 (1080138)
Rodiat Amusan1, David O Olanrewaju2, Adaeze M Eze3, Tolugbemi Agunbiade1 and Aminullahi Olamide Ismail1, (1)Federal University of Technology Akure, Department of Applied Geophysics, Akure, Nigeria, (2)Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited, Lagos, Nigeria, (3)University of Wyoming, Laramie, United States
 
Rethinking Renewable Solar Energy Resources in India: Land Availability and Land Use and Land Cover Perspectives (1085977)
Sushovan Ghosh1, Alok Kumar2, Sagnik Dey2 and Dilip Ganguly3, (1)Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India, (2)IIT Delhi, New Delhi, India, (3)Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, New Delhi, India
 
Importance of Secondary Fuel use In Cooking Energy Estimation for India: An Initiative For Sustainable Energy Use (1101560)
Jyoti Kumari1, Gazala Habib1, Mohd Shahzar Khan1, Mohd Imran1, Ravikrishna R2, Chandra Venkataraman3, Harish C Phuleria4, Tuhin Kumar Mandal5, Asif Qureshi6, Arshid Jehangir7, Anubha Goel8, Binoy kumar Saikia9, Baerbel Sinha10, Ramya Sunder Raman11, R. Naresh Kumar12, Pandithurai G.13 and Abhijit Chatterjee14, (1)Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India, (2)Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Department of Chemical Engineering, Chennai, India, (3)Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Department of Chemical Engineering, Interdisciplinary Program in Climate Studies, Mumbai, India, (4)Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Environmental Science and Engineering Department, Interdisciplinary Program in Climate Studies, Mumbai, India, (5)Principal Scientist, Environmental Sciences and Biomedical Metrology Division, Delhi, India, (6)Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Civil Engineering Department, Hyderabad, India, (7)University of Kashmir, Srinagar, India, Department of Environmental Science, Srinagar, India, (8)Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India, (9)CSIR-North East Institute of Science and Technology, Jorhat, India, Coal and Energy Group, Materials Science and Technology Division, Jorhat, India, (10)Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, SAS Nagar, India, (11)Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Bhopal, India, (12)Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ranchi, India, (13)Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India, (14)Bose Institute, Environmental Sciences Section, Kolkata, India
 
Characterizing Malaysia’s Transition into a Liberalized Electricity Market (1103172)
Zhuoer Feng, Phumthep Bunnak and Stefano Galelli, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Pillar of Engineering Systems and Design, Singapore, Singapore
 
Public preferences towards energy transitions in India at the policy and consumer level (1106174)
Pooja Ramamurthi, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States and Elke Weber, Princeton University, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton, NJ, United States
 
Decarbonization in Ukraine: Forced Way to a Cleaner Future after the War (1132794)
Nazar Kholod1, Meredydd Evans1, Oleksandr Diachuk2, Molly Charles3, Neal T Graham4, Roman Podolets2, Tanner Stelmach3, Andrii Semeniuk2 and Galyna Trypolska2, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, United States, (2)Institute for Economics and Forecasting, Kyiv, Ukraine, (3)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, College Park, United States, (4)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
 
Climate Change May Favor the Use of Solar Irrigation (1137023)
Hua Xie and Claudia Ringler, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC, United States
 
Liquefied Petroleum Gas and Pellet Fuels as Replacements for Charcoal Cooking: Household Energy Transitions Observed in Urban Rwanda (1181410)
Cheryl Weyant1, Joseph Allan Pedit2, Caleb Milliken3, Ashley Bittner4, Sudhanshu Handa2, Leena Nylander-French2, Karin Yeatts2 and Pamela Jagger5, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States, (3)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, School for Environment and Sustainability, Ann Arbor, United States, (4)North Carolina State University Raleigh, Raleigh, United States, (5)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
 
Modeling residential energy sector’s just and low-carbon transitions at the subnational level in China (1191462)
Kangkang Tong and Shuyu Sun, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
 
Exploring sustainable energy pathways for a South American sub-region (1191488)
Thomas Bernard Wild1, A.F.M. Kamal Chowdhury2, Jonathan Lamontagne3, Jacob Wessel4 and Franklyn Kanyako4, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD, United States, (3)Tufts University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Medford, MA, United States, (4)Tufts University, Medford, United States
 
Global Mitigation Efforts Cannot Neglect Emerging Emitters (1197265)
Can Cui, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Dabo Guan, Tsinghua University, Department of Earth System Science, Beijing, China and Steven J Davis, University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, United States
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