scholarly journals Mitigating Energy Poverty: Mobilizing Climate Finance to Manage the Energy Trilemma in Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1603 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abidah B. Setyowati
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Rural Electrification ◽  
Climate Finance ◽  
Energy Access ◽  
Energy Poverty ◽  
Electricity Grid ◽  
Global Challenge ◽  
Electricity Access ◽  
Change Mitigation

Energy poverty remains a key global challenge. In Indonesia, around 25 million people are still without electricity access, and many of them live in geographically isolated areas and remote places that preclude them from access to the electricity grid. Deploying renewable energy sources in these areas could present an opportunity for a remarkable and rare complementarity between energy security, energy access, and climate change mitigation. This article examines how energy trilemma plays out in mobilizing private climate finance for renewable rural electrification in Indonesia. Analysis of relevant documents combined with interviews at local and national levels reveals that multiple barriers persist constraining the mobilization of private climate finance to support renewable rural electrification in Indonesia. In turn, this has led to difficulties with managing the tensions and reaching the complementarity of the three key energy objectives. The article concludes with some recommendations for moving forward.

Mobilising private climate finance for sustainable energy access and climate change mitigation in Sub-Saharan Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-62
Author(s):  
Axel Michaelowa ◽  
Stephan Hoch ◽  
Anne-Kathrin Weber ◽  
Ruth Kassaye ◽  
Tesfaye Hailu
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Sustainable Energy ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Climate Finance ◽  
Energy Access ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Change Mitigation

scholarly journals Influence of renewable energy sources on climate change mitigation in Serbia

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 411-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladica Bozic ◽  
Slobodan Cvetkovic ◽  
Branislav Zivkovic
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Change Mitigation

scholarly journals Global energy trilemma

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 437-462
Author(s):  
Leonid M. Grigoryev ◽  
Dzhanneta D. Medzhidova
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Energy Poverty ◽  
Global Energy ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Global Recession ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Change Mitigation

The international community has become increasingly concerned with sustainable development and particularly with preventing climate change. The COVID-19 pandemic and global recession of 2020 will exacerbate the situation not just for 2020–2021, but for many years to come. Sadly, it is a game-changer. The necessity to solve problems of poverty (energy poverty) and inequality, as well as growth and climate change mitigation, now haunts intellectuals, forecasters, and politicians. These three problems constitute the global energy trilemma (GET). There is a wide range of forecasts, scenarios, and political plans emerging after the Paris Agreement in 2015. They demonstrate concerns about the slow progress on the matter; however, they still increase the goals for 2030–2050. The global capital formation is a key tool for changes while also representing the hard-budget investment constraints. This article examines practical features of recent trends in energy, poverty, and climate change mitigation, arguing that allocation and coordinated management of sufficient financial resources are vital for a simultaneous solution of GET. No group of countries can hope to solve each of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) separately. The global economy has reached the point where it has an urgent need for cooperation.

scholarly journals Climate Change Mitigation Policies Targeting Households and Addressing Energy Poverty in European Union

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 3389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalia Streimikiene ◽  
Vidas Lekavičius ◽  
Tomas Baležentis ◽  
Grigorios L. Kyriakopoulos ◽  
Josef Abrhám
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Emission Reduction ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Ghg Emission ◽  
Energy Poverty ◽  
Change Mitigation ◽  
Mitigation Policies

Climate change mitigation measures linked to households’ energy consumption have huge greenhouse gases (GHG) emission reduction potential and positive impact on energy poverty reduction. However, measures such as renovation of residential buildings or installation of micro generation technologies based on renewable energy sources have not realized their full energy saving and GHG emission reduction potentials, due to the energy efficiency paradox and other barriers. These climate change mitigation policies targeting the households’ sector can deliver extra benefits such as energy poverty reduction and implementation of the energy justice principle; therefore, they require more attention of scholars and policy makers. The aim of this paper is to analyze the energy poverty and climate change mitigation issues in EU households based on a systematic literature review, and to provide future research paths and policy recommendations. Based on the systematic literature review, this paper develops an integrated framework for addressing energy poverty, just carbon free energy transition and climate change mitigation issues in the EU. Additionally, we argue that more targeted climate change policies and measures are necessary in the light of the shortcomings of current measures to reduce energy poverty and realize climate change mitigation potential linked to energy consumption in households.

Trade-offs and synergies between universal electricity access and climate change mitigation in Sub-Saharan Africa

Energy Policy ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 114 ◽  
pp. 355-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anteneh G. Dagnachew ◽  
Paul L. Lucas ◽  
Andries F. Hof ◽  
Detlef P. van Vuuren
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Electricity Access ◽  
Change Mitigation
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