"Energy aid and climate compatible development strategies", on CDKN blog

Jos Bruggink recently published an article on the CDKN blog based on his report titled "Energy Aid in times of Climate Change - Designing Climate Compatible Development Strategies".

The report challenges the popular 'triple-win' approach of climate compatible development, which aims to encompass mitigation, adaptation, and development objectives simultaneously.  Prof. Dr. Bruggink proposes that the traditional divide between solving problems of development and climate change be replaced by an alternate divide between solving problems of rising affluence and problems of persistent poverty. Illustrated in the context of energy aid, he suggests that traditional ODA funding should focus on problems of energy access involving poverty alleviation and climate change adaptation, while new climate change funding should focus on problems of green growth and climate change mitigation.

View the article and report, and learn more about the Climate and Development Knowledge Network here.

Online Course: Regulation and Sustainable Energy in Developing Countries

This week, Leonardo Energy and the Clean Energy Solutions Center began a 10-session online course on Regulation and Sustainable Energy in Developing Countries. The course is conducted as a series of 1-hour webinars, and covers topics including: renewable energy and rural electrification policies, feed-in tariffs, cases of massive scale RE dissemination, and cases of successful energy efficiency policies.

Click here to view more content and register for the course.