Triple wins? Prospects for pro-poor, low carbon, climate resilient energy services in Kenya

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Main author: Phillips, Jon
Other authors: Newell, Peter
Pueyo, Ana
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description This chapter describes political economy analysis to raise some unanswered and unasked questions about how energy systems might be redesigned to simultaneously meet climate, development and adaptation goals. Energy systems refer not only to the technology and infrastructures of modern energy production and consumption gas turbines, solar lamps or transmission lines but to the social and political systems through which these technological artefacts emerge and are governed. The chapter provides two Kenyan policy initiatives that attempt to integrate climate change and development priorities in different ways. First is the government incentive for private sector power producers to generate electricity from renewable energy resources. Second is the effort to mainstream climate change concerns into government decision-making and planning, including in the energy sector. Kenya's Climate Change Action Plan is an expression of energy agendas – seeking to expand the space for 'triple win' policies for development, climate change mitigation and adaptation.
author_additional Nunan, Fiona
author_additionalStr Nunan, Fiona
format Book Chapters
author Phillips, Jon
author_facet Phillips, Jon
Newell, Peter
Pueyo, Ana
authorStr Phillips, Jon
author_letter Phillips, Jon
author2 Newell, Peter
Pueyo, Ana
author2Str Newell, Peter
Pueyo, Ana
title Triple wins? Prospects for pro-poor, low carbon, climate resilient energy services in Kenya
publisher Routledge
publishDate 2017
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/36240/

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