Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency South-South Cooperation
Abstract
he Global South has for several decades now been demanding to simplify and improve conditions for technology transfer, not only, but especially in climate change and sustainability discussions. Technology transfer being dominated by the Global North has led to substantial power asymmetries which are only slowly beginning to change their dynamics through the rise of emerging economies in the Global South. This is where the new institution of the Global Network of Regional Sustainable Energy Centres comes in which promotes itself as a South-South partnership and also aims at contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (GN-SEC 2018). The doctoral project is interested in the discussion about technology transfer and a potential new direction this South-South cooperation might contribute to the unidirectional way that development aid and technology used to flow from the Global North to the Global South. This South-South cooperation with the objective of improving the access to sustainable energy and climate technologies is essential in changing the game because it connects different regions of the Global South for whom the topic of technology transfer is very important. This doctoral project aims at investigating if the global network can initiate new power relations in the Global South. The overarching research question asks how the Regional Sustainable Energy Centres strengthen South-South Cooperation and contribute to the SDGs that form part of the centres’ objectives. There are three sub-research questions. First, how do the selected centres work, what topics do they focus on and which role do the three selected SDGs and their implementation play? Second, how is expertise about sustainability, renewable energy and energy efficiency being developed in and by the Sustainable Energy Centres? And third, how is the South-South cooperation implemented by the centres and can the centres contribute to a new balance of powers by strengthening the South-South cooperation?
Energypolicy north-south relations technologytransfer
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Project staff
Christoph Görg
Univ.Prof. Dr. Christoph Görg
christoph.goerg@boku.ac.at
Project Leader
01.10.2021 - 27.09.2022
Carmen Séra-Penker
Carmen Séra-Penker MA MA
carmen.sera-penker@boku.ac.at
Project Leader
28.09.2022 - 30.06.2024
Project Staff
01.10.2021 - 27.09.2022