Tuesday 5 July 2022 1:00pm to 2:00pm
SG1, Alison Richard Building / Online via Zoom
About
Speaker: Dr Cristina Peñasco, University Lecturer in public Policy at POLIS
Research summary
The access to affordable and clean energy is one of the global goals in the Agenda 2030. Energy is a priority resource as it acts as an asset at the core of sustainable development: it can help overcome social, economic and environmental challenges.
The transition to low carbon economies is essential for economic development in developing economies and it opens venues for developed countries to think strategically about energy and foreign policy in a changing context.
Analysing how bilateral aid for renewable energy projects is allocated is crucial to understand if donor countries prioritize social and environmental goals or if their motives are less altruistic and more focused on their own economic and strategic benefits in the global context of the geopolitics of the energy transition.
To examine how development aid for renewable energy projects is allocated across countries we pay attention to donor and recipient characteristics and interactions but also to donor-donor strategic relationships.
We use a two-step strategy based on quantitative social network analysis and panel data models to examine the technical, economic or geopolitical motives determining the allocation of bilateral aid for projects on non-emitting energy sources from 2000 to 2018 with OECD-CRS data.
Using the degree centrality of the recipient to measure the concentration of RE ODA and therefore, the importance of a donor within the recipient’s network, we analyse the motivations behind the strategic donations of countries.
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