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Type Book Chapter
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Taking the lead – how the global South could benefit from climate finance, technology transfer, and from adopting stringent climate policies
Organization Unit
Authors
  • A Muller
Editors
  • N Ekekwe
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed No
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Booktitle Nanotechnology and Microelectronics: Global Diffusion, Economics and Policy
ISBN 978-1-61692-006-7 (P) 978-1-61692-007-4 (E)
Place of Publication New York
Publisher IGI Global
Page Range 226 - 242
Date 2010
Abstract Text In this chapter, I argue that the countries in the South can gain from stringent own climate policies. This is so, as in the current situation, the south tends to be dominated by the climate policies of northern countries and climate finance largely supports single projects and technology transfer that are not embedded in a broader policy framework in southern countries. Adopting own stringent policies could help to counteract this and to channel these financial means to their most beneficial use. This could help southern countries to follow an agenda that is different from the fossil fuel based development path of the north. Such a “green new deal” could be a promising economic and technological development strategy. Stringent climate policies would strengthen the southern countries in the international climate negotiations and southern countries could take the lead in the climate change mitigation debate. Technology transfer and the carbon finance sector would play a crucial role for this. Climate policy and climate finance could thus be used to set a new stage, where the south is not at a disadvantage with respect to the north.
Official URL http://www.igi-global.com/bookstore/Chapter.aspx?TitleId=43328
Digital Object Identifier 10.4018/978-1-61692-006-7.ch014
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