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2018   |   Pub­li­ca­tion

The COBENEFITS Approach of Strategic Co-Benefit Assessments

With its co-ben­e­­fit assess­ment stud­ies, the COBENEFITS project explores how ambi­tious domes­tic renew­able ener­gy and cli­mate change mit­i­ga­tion tar­gets will be sup­port­ive of oth­er social and eco­nom­ic per­for­mance tar­gets of gov­ern­ments and min­istries in the part­ner coun­tries. This paper describes the project process, divid­ed in 1. Selec­tion and Pri­or­i­ti­za­tion of Co-Ben­e­­­fits, 2. Ref­er­ence Pol­i­cy Scenarios […]

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2018   |   Ger­many, India, South Africa  |   Pub­li­ca­tion

Factsheet: Leveraging the Social and Economic Co-Benefits of Ambitious and Early Climate Action

This fact­sheet con­tains infor­ma­tion on the social and eco­nom­ic oppor­tu­ni­ties of renew­able ener­gies with exam­ples from India, Ger­many, South Africa, and the world, along with key rec­om­men­da­tions for lever­ag­ing the co-ben­e­­­fits of ambi­tious and ear­ly cli­mate action. The fact­sheet was cre­at­ed for the Peters­berg Cli­mate Dia­logue IX in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Fed­er­al Min­istry for the Envi­ron­ment, Nature […]

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2018   |   Pub­li­ca­tion

Germany–Latin America: Fostering Strategic Alliances for a Global Energy Transition

As Renew­able Ener­gies bring along impor­tant eco­nom­ic and social ben­e­fits, they also open up options for polit­i­cal dia­logue on the basis of glob­al oppor­tu­ni­ty shar­ing. Latin Amer­i­ca is of strate­gic impor­tance for Germany’s inter­na­tion­al sus­tain­able ener­gy poli­cies. Sus­tain­able ener­gy tech­nolo­gies not only have a large poten­tial mar­ket in Latin Amer­i­ca but also offer oppor­tu­ni­ties to address […]

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2017   |   Pub­li­ca­tion

Building New Alliances – Seizing Opportunities – Raising Climate Ambitions in the new energy world of renewables

In col­lab­o­ra­tion with nation­al knowl­edge part­ners in India, South Africa, Viet­nam and Turkey, the project elab­o­rates coun­try-spe­­­cif­ic co-ben­e­­­fits of cli­mate poli­cies, with empha­sis on the oppor­tu­ni­ties pre­sent­ed by renew­able pow­er gen­er­a­tion. With its polit­i­cal part­ners in gov­ern­ment depart­ments and agen­cies, COBENEFITS con­nects the social and eco­nom­ic oppor­tu­ni­ties of renew­able ener­gies to cli­mate change mit­i­ga­tion strate­gies. The […]

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2017   |   Pub­li­ca­tion

Connecting opportunities with interests in the new energy world of renewables

Cli­mate pro­tec­tion mea­sures and strate­gies can deliv­er numer­ous ben­e­fits: from improve­ments in human health to few­er con­flicts over resources, and a reduced depen­den­cy on ener­gy imports. Cli­mate pol­i­cy should place a greater empha­sis on these social and eco­nom­ic effects. […]

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2017   |   Ger­many  |   Pub­li­ca­tion

Social Benefits of Renewable Energies

Boost­ed by impres­sive tech­no­log­i­cal inno­va­tion and cost reduc­tions, renew­able ener­gy in a grow­ing num­ber of coun­tries is now pri­mar­i­ly con­sid­ered for its social and eco­nom­ic ben­e­fits. Among these ben­e­fits are oppor­tu­ni­ties for local val­ue cre­ation, for respond­ing to grow­ing ener­gy demands and for reduc­ing con­flicts over scarce water, which are aggra­vat­ed by fos­sil pow­er generation. […]

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2017   |   Pub­li­ca­tion

Generating socio-economic values from renewable energies: An overview of questions and assessment methods

Renew­able ener­gies are viewed as a means to rec­on­cile the decar­bon­i­sa­tion of ener­gy sys­tems with sus­tain­able eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment. The list of their pos­si­ble social and eco­nom­ic ben­e­fits is long and many of these claims have an empir­i­cal basis. Despite this, a method for their assess­ment of the capac­i­ty to reflect spe­cif­ic coun­try con­di­tions does not exist. […]

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2017   |   Chi­na  |   Pub­li­ca­tion

Co-Benefits of Renewables in China: 8 Key Conclusions

In a GIZ-IASS Expert Round­table in Bei­jing in March 2017, experts from Chi­na, Ger­many and the USA explored how China’s tran­si­tion to the new ener­gy world unrav­els long­time trade-offs between eco­nom­ic, social and envi­ron­men­tal inter­ests and how China’s increas­ing­ly lead­ing role in inter­na­tion­al cli­mate diplo­ma­cy trans­lates back to imme­di­ate oppor­tu­ni­ties for domes­tic devel­op­ment and welfare. […]

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