Top, Eva EN (2022) The Nexus Between Renewable Energy Access Financing and Climate Adaptation. Master thesis, Cultural Geography - Climate Adaptation Governance (CAG).
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Abstract
The global society is increasingly impacted by climate change. Not only prevention of this change is necessary: the world also needs to adapt to the inevitable climate hazards that will present themselves. At this moment, climate financing is mainly directed towards climate mitigation. One mitigation measure is the enablement of renewable energy access in developing countries. Therefore, this research investigates how the nexus between renewable energy access and climate adaptation can be more exploited within renewable energy access financing. This is done with the aim of creating more bilateral finance. To conduct this research, qualitative methods are used. The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) is used as a case study. Eleven interviews are held with implementers of renewable energy access financing programs. The AMP-framework (Awareness, Motivation, Pathways) is used as a basis to identify how the behavior of these implementers can be shifted from being only mitigation focused, to being focused on mitigation while integrating adaptation benefits. Findings show that the financing gap between climate mitigation and climate adaptation could be decreased when climate adaptation impacts are explicitly integrated in renewable energy access financing. In order to make that shift, more knowledge must be brought in the organization, a collective understanding about the nexus and the approach that needs to be taken must be reached, and indicators to measure progress should be developed. The three elements of the AMP-framework do not have to be present within every individual, but all have to be present in a group as a collective in order to make that shift. Besides, the elements are not a prerequisite to each other, but they definitely influence each other.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Name supervisor: | Mc Dermott, R.P. |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Sep 2022 12:05 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Sep 2022 12:05 |
| URI: | https://campus-fryslan.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/213 |
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