Generating Growth from Innovation for the Low-carbon Economy

Generating Growth from Innovation for the Low-carbon Economy
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Release: 2017
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Within the On October 5, 2016, the Paris Agreement, agreed policy framework of stringency, predictability, to at the twenty-first session of the Conference flexibility and subsidiarity, policies to safeguard of the Parties (COP21) to the United Nations the spillover benefits of publicly funded innovation Framework Convention on Climate Change should address market failures and asymmetries in (UNFC [...] Public investment in innovations related to energy and to carbon and business environment enablers that reduce barriers to the emergence of new firms have resulted in the creation of many firms whose The Paris Agreement: business models are founded on innovation and whose markets are global, but whose customers Translating Commitments and competitors are much larger incumbents. [...] The potential for mergers and Figure 2, have led firms to emphasize that acquisitions at a discount may limit the spillover their ability to contribute to the low-carbon benefits to the environment and the economy. [...] In Canada, the challenge of safeguarding the Second, the solutions these firms offer are ready spillover benefits of clean energy innovation now, before carbon and pollution markets pay must also be considered in light of the economy's significant and rising prices for externalities, overall challenges and priorities, notably that of before regulation and approval processes account productivity. [...] At the macroeconomic level, Canada's ability to compete and sustain global market share is borne The question for prudent policy makers to consider out, at the sector level, by Canada's performance is: can advanced and emerging economies make as the third from the bottom in changes in the transition to the low-carbon economy - with global market share of exports of manufactured the attendant expec.

Technology Transfer and Innovation for Low-Carbon Development

Technology Transfer and Innovation for Low-Carbon Development
Author: Miria Pigato
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2020-04-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1464815003

Technological revolutions have increased the world’s wealth unevenly and in ways that have accelerated climate change. This report argues that achieving The Paris Agreement’s objectives would require a massive transfer of existing and commercially proven low-carbon technologies (LCT) from high-income to developing countries where the bulk of future emissions is expected to occur. This mass deployment is not only a necessity but also an opportunity: Policies to deploy LCT can help countries achieve economic and other development objectives, like improving human health, in addition to reducing greenhouse gases (GHGs). Additionally, LCT deployment offers an opportunity for countries with sufficient capabilities to benefit from participation in global value chains and produce and export LCTs. Finally, the report calls for a greater international involvement in supporting the poorest countries, which have the least access to LCT and finance and the most underdeveloped physical, technological, and institutional capabilities that are essential to benefit from technology.

Innovation for a Low Carbon Economy

Innovation for a Low Carbon Economy
Author: Tim Foxon
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781781956403

Innovation for a Low Carbon Economy analyses the interplay of technological, institutional, market and management factors in the dynamics of energy systems. The book aims to inform national and international policies to promote low carbon innovation.

How Solar Energy Became Cheap

How Solar Energy Became Cheap
Author: Gregory F. Nemet
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2019-05-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0429643853

Solar energy is a substantial global industry, one that has generated trade disputes among superpowers, threatened the solvency of large energy companies, and prompted serious reconsideration of electric utility regulation rooted in the 1930s. One of the biggest payoffs from solar’s success is not the clean inexpensive electricity it can produce, but the lessons it provides for innovation in other technologies needed to address climate change. Despite the large literature on solar, including analyses of increasingly detailed datasets, the question as to how solar became inexpensive and why it took so long still remains unanswered. Drawing on developments in the US, Japan, Germany, Australia, and China, this book provides a truly comprehensive and international explanation for how solar has become inexpensive. Understanding the reasons for solar’s success enables us to take full advantage of solar’s potential. It can also teach us how to support other low-carbon technologies with analogous properties, including small modular nuclear reactors and direct air capture. However, the urgency of addressing climate change means that a key challenge in applying the solar model is in finding ways to speed up innovation. Offering suggestions and policy recommendations for accelerated innovation is another key contribution of this book. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy technology and innovation, climate change and energy analysis and policy, as well as practitioners and policymakers working in the existing and emerging energy industries.

The Carbon Bubble

The Carbon Bubble
Author: Jeff Rubin
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2016-05-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0345814703

As the price of oil falls, bestselling author and economist Jeff Rubin takes us to the epicentre of the bursting global carbon bubble, and dares us to imagine a new engine for growth that does not run on oil. For a decade, the vision of Canada's future as an energy superpower has driven the country's political agenda, as well as the fast-paced development of Alberta's oil sands and the push for more pipelines like Keystone XL across the continent to bring that bitumen to market. Anyone who objects to pipelines and tanker-train traffic, north or south of the US border, is labeled a dreamer, or worse—an environmentalist: someone who puts the health of the planet ahead of the economic survival of their neighbours. In The Carbon Bubble, Jeff Rubin compellingly shows how an economic vision that rests on oil is dead wrong. Changes in energy markets in the US—where domestic production is booming while demand for oil is shrinking—are quickly turning the oil dream into an economic nightmare. Like U.S. coal stocks, the share values of oil-sands producers have been drastically reduced by falling fuel prices and are increasingly exposed to the world's efforts to reduce carbon emissions. Rubin argues that there is a lifeline to a better future. The very climate change that will leave much of the country's carbon unburnable could at the same time make some of Canada's other resource assets more valuable: its water and its land. In tomorrow's economy, he argues, Canada won't be an energy superpower, but it has the makings of one of the world's great breadbaskets, as everything from the corn belt to viniculture heads to higher latitudes. And in the global climate that the world's carbon emissions are inexorably creating, growing food will soon be a lot more valuable than mining bitumen.

Green Innovation in China

Green Innovation in China
Author: Joanna I. Lewis
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2013
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0231153309

Just a decade ago, China maintained only a handful of operating wind turbines -- all imported from Europe and the United States.

Carbon Governance, Climate Change and Business Transformation

Carbon Governance, Climate Change and Business Transformation
Author: Adam Bumpus
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2014-07-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135067864

Transformation to a low carbon economy is a central tenet to any discussion on the solutions to the complex challenges of climate change and energy security. Despite advances in policy, carbon management and continuing development of clean technology, fundamental business transformation has not occurred because of multiple political, economic, social and organisational issues. Carbon Governance, Climate Change and Business Transformation is based on leading academic and industry input, and three international workshops focused on low carbon transformation in leading climate policy jurisdictions (Canada, USA and the UK) under the international Carbon Governance Project (CGP) banner. The book pulls insights from this innovative collaborative network to identify the policy combinations needed to create transformative change. It explores fundamental questions about how governments and the private sector conceptualize the problem of climate change, the conditions under which business transformation can genuinely take place and key policy and business innovations needed. Broadly, the book is based on emerging theories of multi-levelled, multi-actor carbon governance, and applies these ideas to the real world implications for tackling climate change through business transformation. Conceptually and empirically, this book stimulates both academic discussion and practical business models for low carbon transformation.

Low Carbon Transition

Low Carbon Transition
Author: Valter Silva
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2018-10-03
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1789239699

Most leaders of developed nations recognize the importance of following policies and strategies to achieve a low-carbon economy based on new and innovative technologies that are able to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and create new employment and growth. In the broad spectrum of the feasible decarbonisation pathways, the challenge for political and economic decision-makers is to weigh uncertain impact from different technologies and to build a comprehensive evidence-based framework for research, business, investment and policy decision-making. This book aims to provide the reader with a comprehensive overview of the current state-of-the-art technology in the Low Carbon Technology and Economy field, discussing a set of new technology approaches and environmental and economic implications.