Energy aid in times of climate change
An ECN report on designing climate compatible development strategies.
Conventional development aid and climate change related activities in developing countries show an increasing interrelation. The challenge of climate compatible development is often seen in terms of finding triple-win solutions that aim at development, greenhouse gas emission mitigation and adaptation to climate change simultaneously. A new ECN report questions this approach, proposing double-win solutions in two separate spheres of intervention and policy: green growth dealing with problems of rising affluence and energy access dealing with problems of persistent poverty.
The report explores the consequences of this approach for energy aid architecture by analysing three major challenges that confront the development aid and climate change communities today: mobilizing adequate funds, safeguarding aid effectiveness and stimulating appropriate systems innovation.
The report was written by Jos Bruggink in the context of the IS academy, a collaborative research project on energy access and development cooperation implemented by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the VU University Amsterdam and the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN).
The report can be found here.
A blog on this topic for the website of Climate & Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) is to be found here.
