Ecuador’s Energy Policy Mix: Development, Conservation and Nationalism with Chinese Loans (ARI)
Ecuador’s energy policy faces a complex variety of political and economic objectives that are difficult to reconcile in a consistent manner.
Climate and energy
Small Island Developing States and Climate Change: Effects, Responses and Positions beyond Durban
This working paper overviews the climate change impacts on Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and reviews the policies implemented by SIDS in response to climate threats. The paper mainly uses the framework of the Bali Roadmap and considers areas of priority identified in the Barbados Programme of Action.
Energy Alternatives for the Transport Sector: The US and the EU Move in Different Directions (ARI)
This ARI looks at the current developments in alternative fuels/technologies for road transport in the framework of rising international prices for conventional fuels and climate change mitigation efforts.
Analysing Physical and Socio-economic Risk in the Adaption of Agriculture to Climate Change (ARI)
Adapting agriculture to climate change requires an understanding of both natural impacts and the underlying vulnerability of socio-economic systems.
The International Energy Agency Responds to the Libyan Crisis (ARI)
On 23 June, the International Energy Agency (IEA) announced the release of 60 million barrels of its members’ strategic petroleum reserves in July. In justifying the move, the IEA cited the need to mitigate the effects of the Libyan crisis, but it has been interpreted as a call for the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to boost production and not jeopardise the economic recovery, as well as giving Saudi Arabia time to make the announced production increase materialise.
Africa and Climate Change: Impacts, Policies and Stance Ahead of Cancún (ARI)
This analysis reviews the effects of climate change in Africa, the response measures undertaken in the continent and the expected position of African countries in Cancún, Mexico.
The EU and Climate Change in the lead up to Cancún: Impacts, Policies and Positions (ARI)
This paper analyses the main consequences of climate change for the EU, the mitigation and adaptation policies it has undertaken and the negotiating stance it will adopt in the international climate-change negotiations.
Cultural Change for a Bearable Climate (ARI)
Stabilising the climate and curbing ecological decline more broadly will take nothing less than transforming cultural systems so that living sustainably becomes as natural as living as a consumer feels today. To do that, it will be necessary to harness leading societal institutions just as consumer interests did in the past century, when they so effectively normalised consumerism.
Is China doing enough to protect the environment? (ARI)
Following the recent worsening of problems linked to pollution, it is worth looking at the measures implemented so far by the Chinese government in order to safeguard the environment.
China in Ghana: Easing the Shift from Aid Dependency to Oil Economy? (ARI)
The author examines recent changes in the Ghanaian aid and investment landscape as China has stepped up its relations with this donor ‘darling’.
The BP Spill: A Policy Turning Point or a Further Case of Fickle Social Ripples? (ARI)
Despite the preliminary nature of the available data, what are the underlying, intermediate and proximate causes of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, its main consequences and possible future developments?
Uncertainty in Climate Change
This Working Paper reviews the main reasons why definite and conclusive evidence in the field of climate change is almost an impossibility.
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