Can the Green Economy Deliver It All? Experiences of Renewable Energy Policies with Socio-Economic Objectives

Elsevier


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Abstract: The Green Economy (GE) paradigm aims to reconcile environmental and socio-economic objectives. Policies to deploy renewable energy (RE) are widely perceived as a way to tap the potential synergies of these objectives. It is, however, still largely unclear whether the potential of simultaneously achieving both environmental and socio-economic objectives can be fully realized, and whether and how multiple objectives influence policy design, implementation, and evaluation. The paper aims to contribute to this aspect of GE research by looking at selected country experiences of renewable energy deployment with respect to the socio-economic goals of job creation or energy access.

Author:
Karoline Steinbacher, Michael Pahle, Shonali Pachauri
Theme/Sector:
Energy and Fuels, Renewable Energy
Year
2016

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