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. […]
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. […]
2016 | Publication
Secure and Sustainable Energy in a Water-Constrained World
The global water needs of the energy sector are large. Without policy changes, they will continue to grow. But already today, water constraints pose a threat to a secure electricity supply. In many parts of the world, droughts and heat waves have led to forced reductions in power generation. […]
2015 | Publication
Green Shift to Sustainability: Co-Benefits & Impacts of Energy Transformation on Resource Industries, Trade, Growth, and Taxes
Energy transformation towards 100% renewable energy is economically inevitable, and socially and environmentally desirable, yet it may produce negative signals in outdated statistics as fossil trade diminishes and the sector shrinks. […]
2015 | Publication
Green Shift to Sustainability: Co-benefits and Impacts of Energy Transformation
Energy transformation toward 100 percent renewable energy is desirable and inevitable. New energy systems, based on efficiency, renewables, storage and smart management, are cheaper to build, run and maintain. […]
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