OECD Environment Working Papers
This series is designed to make available to a wider readership selected studies on environmental issues prepared for use within the OECD. Authorship is usually collective, but principal authors are named. The papers are generally available only in their original language English or French with a summary in the other if available.
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- ISSN: 19970900 (online)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/19970900
Clean power for a cool planet
Electricity infrastructure plans and the Paris Agreement
Meeting the temperature goals of the Paris Agreement requires a transformational change in our infrastructure systems. Given the long lifetime of infrastructure, there is an urgency to build more of the right type of it. The failure to do so will lock-in emissions for decades to come, or create stranded assets. This working paper aims to shed light on the extent to which current electricity generation projects under construction at the global level - the "pipeline" - are consistent with what a low-carbon transition requires.
Keywords: Just transition, Political economy, Renewable energy, Coal, Electricity Sector, Gas, Environment
JEL:
P48: Economic Systems / Other Economic Systems / Other Economic Systems: Political Economy; Legal Institutions; Property Rights; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Regional Studies;
L94: Industrial Organization / Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities / Electric Utilities;
Q4: Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics / Energy;
O13: Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth / Economic Development / Economic Development: Agriculture; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Other Primary Products
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