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Improving Renewable Energy Governance: Insights from Low-Carbon Investment Community Stakeholders

In: RENEWABLE ENERGY FINANCE Funding the Future of Energy

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  • Joel Krupa
  • Danny Harvey

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Social and economic infrastructure are integral to maintaining a society’s quality of life. Infrastructure remains one of the few topics for which unanimous political support seems plausible, and every year, approximately $2.7 trillion are spent worldwide on infrastructure projects such as ports and bridges (Authers, 2015). Yet this seemingly enormous sum masks an infrastructure expenditure gap (i.e., the difference between what is spent and what should be spent) of at least $1 trillion per year — a number which may grow in the coming years. This is due to ongoing contributors such as exploding population and economic growth in emerging markets, historical underinvestment in infrastructure, and misalignment of the interests and needs of the private sector, the public sector, and civil society in infrastructure-related decisions (Authers, 2015)…

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  • Joel Krupa & Danny Harvey, 2020. "Improving Renewable Energy Governance: Insights from Low-Carbon Investment Community Stakeholders," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Charles W Donovan (ed.), RENEWABLE ENERGY FINANCE Funding the Future of Energy, chapter 6, pages 113-139, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:wschap:9781786348609_0006
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    Keywords

    Renewable Energy; Renewable Energy Finance; Clean Energy Finance; Green Investments;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q2 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation
    • Q48 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Government Policy
    • O13 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Environment; Other Primary Products

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