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A Review of the Nature of Foreign Aid to the Energy Sector over the Last Two Decades

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The Effectiveness of Foreign Aid for Sustainable Energy and Climate Change Mitigation

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Aid Effectiveness for Environmental Sustainability

This collection examines the role that foreign aid can play in dealing with the severe global challenge of climate change, one of the most pressing international development issues of the 21st century...

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Energy futures modelling for African countries: LEAP model application

This study develops a scenario-based model to assess the current and future trends in energy demand in Africa and associated greenhouse gas emissions...

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Environmental change and economic development in Africa

The MIT Global Change Forum has gained an international reputation for serious, frank, and informed discussion of global climate change...

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The Political Economy of Clean Energy Transitions project - an interview with Channing Arndt

Channing Arndt , Senior Research Fellow of UNU-WIDER, presents the thinking behind this project and the study of implementation of clean energy policies. With the forthcoming Paris Conference of the Parties (CoP 21, December 2015) attention is...

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The political economy of clean energy transitions

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