Laurence Delina Authors Oxfam White Paper on China-Philippine Climate Action Cooperation
Laurence Delina, a senior post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently authored a 139-page commissioned white paper on China-Philippine cooperation on climate change action, of which Oxfam has published a 15-page summary.
In the white paper, Delina makes the case for cooperation between government agencies and civil society organizations in China and the Philippines on energy transition, energy access, green infrastructure, adaptation, sustainable urbanization and mobility, and capacity development and innovation. The paper, which was published in both English and Chinese, was commissioned by Oxfam Philippines with support from Oxfam Hong Kong.
At the Pardee Center, Delina leads a research project called The Future of Energy Systems in Developing Countries, which seeks to understand the options and trade-offs for achieving a secure and sustainable energy future in a select number of developing countries. In his newest book, titled Emancipatory Climate Actions: Strategies from histories (Palgrave Macmillan 2019), Delina offers strategies for strengthening climate change activism based on the mechanisms that made previous large-scale social movements successful. He is the author of three other books: Strategies for Rapid Climate Mitigation: Wartime mobilisation as a model for action? (Routledge 2016), Accelerating Sustainable Energy Transition(s) in Developing Countries: The challenges of climate change and sustainable development (Routledge 2017), and Climate Actions: Transformative Mechanisms for Social Mobilisation (Palgrave Macmillan 2019).