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Skype ID: Wil.Burns Blog: Teaching Climate & Energy Law & Policy, http://www.teachingclimatelaw.org -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Babette Never Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 6:16 AM To: Climate Change Info Mailing List Subject: New Papers on Power and Performance in Global Environemntal Governance Dear all, two new papers on the distribution of "green" power for change and performance in global environmental governance might interest you. The briefing paper "Green Power and Performance in Global Environmental Governance" shows who currently has the power for inducing green change in global environmental governance, and who the potential. It uses the examples of the climate regime and clean technology markets and links different actor's power to their actual environmental performance. The paper can be downloaded here: http://www.giga-hamburg.de/index.php?file=gf_international.html&folder=publikationen A more detailed and conceptual version of this paper is available as a working paper: "Toward the Green Economy: Assessing Countries' Green Power" http://www.giga-hamburg.de/dl/download.php?d=/content/publikationen/pdf/wp226_never.pdf Abstract: The green power potential of a country is a central factor in the transformation to a green economy. This paper argues that green power will become a decisive factor for global change. Green power combines sustainability, innovation and power into one concept. By merging insights from political science, economics and innovation research, this paper develops a multidimensional, multilevel concept of green power that takes both resources and processes into account. A first empirical assessment of the current distribution of green power in global environmental governance shows that China and India, in particular, as well as Brazil and Costa Rica are catching up in clean technology and renewable energy. The European Union, Germany and the United States still dominate, but they are not fully maximizing their green power potential. In spite of their discursive power, the green power potential of the least developed countries is relatively small, making the jump toward a green economy unlikely. All comments welcome! Best regards, Babette -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Babette Never Research Fellow GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies Institute of African Affairs Neuer Jungfernstieg 21 20354 Hamburg Phone: +49 (40)- 42825 -760 Fax: +49 (40) – 42825 562 ___________________________________________________________________________________ - You are currently subscribed to climate-l as: [email protected] - View climate-l Forum: https://lists.iisd.ca/read/?forum=climate-l - Membership options / Unsubscribe: https://lists.iisd.ca/read/?forum=climate-l ___________________________________________________________________________________ Subscribe to all other IISD Reporting Services' free newsletters and lists for environment and sustainable development policy professionals at http://www.iisd.ca/email/subscribe.htm ___________________________________________________________________________________ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
