Delina Presents Paper on Sustainable Energy Scaling in Developing Countries at Conference in Bonn

Laurence Delina, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently presented a paper on sustainable energy transitions in developing countries at a conference in Bonn, Germany.

Delina’s paper, titled “Non-state actors’ contributions in meeting mitigation and access challenges in rural Thailand,” explores the global challenges of meeting the objectives of the Paris Climate Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, particularly the overlooked role played by actors at the subnational level in developing countries. The paper gives a first-hand account of a community-level sustainable energy initiative on the border of Thailand and Myanmar, and discusses the process of scaling such projects. Specifically, Delina analyzes two crucial aspects of scaling: “motivation,” i.e. the social, political, technical, and economic aspects of a project’s development; and “capacity”, i.e. the technical skills and leadership abilities needed for a project. Click here to read the full paper abstract.

The conference, called the 2017 Interconnections Between between the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Climate Agreement, brought together over 100 international experts and policy makers from various fields to “exchange ideas and to build bridges between sustainable development and climate change.” Click here for the full conference program and participants list.

As a Pardee Center post-doc, Delina leads a research project on the future of energy systems in developing countries. Click here to read more.