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Scaling Investment in Renewable Energy Generation to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy) and 13 (Climate Action) and the Paris Agreement: Roadblocks and Drivers
No full textThe zero-carbon energy transition is the solution to the 2022 energy crisis and a fundamental part of the solution to the global climate crisis. But there are relatively low levels of investment in renewable energy in developing countries, hindering their achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and contribution to the Paris Agreement goals. There is therefore an urgent need to scale public and private finance for investment in renewable electricity generation, network infrastructure, and end-use sectors.
Five main roadblocks in the way are identified:
Developing countries lack the necessary access to low-cost capital to invest in renewables.
There is a lack of investment in grid and storage infrastructure and a lack of solutions addressing the off-taker risk.
There are insufficient domestic regulatory frameworks for renewable electricity and ill-designed incentives as well as an under-developed institutional capability.
Existing regulatory frameworks—in law, contract, and investment treaties—can limit developing country governments’ policy space to implement and adapt policies to promote and leverage investment in renewables.
Developing countries’ national energy roadmaps and master plans are either non-existent or ill-designed.
The CCSI reports not only identify these roadblocks, but also provide solutions to drive investment in renewables.
The report sheds light on the five roadblocks and provides recommendations for the drivers of investment in renewables while distilling solutions from international experience. It clarifies where international and national efforts should urgently be focused to address the deterrents of investment in renewables and enable zero-carbon energy security and prosperity.We thank the following reviewers for their helpful comments and guidance on this report: Jérôme Schmitt, Miguel Muñoz Rodriguez, Gonzalo Saenz De Miera, Marco Serena, and Bruce Usher. We were also guided and supported enormously by Lisa Sachs throughout the project, from its inception to its final stages. We would like to thank Jack Arnold, who spent countless days fixing (and refixing) the footnotes in the report; Ethan Henry Goldstein, Yuko Hashimoto, Aarushi Sahu, and Duoye Xu for their invaluable contributions to the design, analysis, and research of this report and the CCSI–E3G survey; and Jérôme Schmitt and Tom Mitro, who were instrumental at the design phase of the CCSI–E3G survey. We were privileged to have had insightful conversations on various topics throughout the research and writing of this report with Jérôme Schmitt, Lou Wells, Joe Bell, George Kahale III, Haydn Palliser, and the AES team. We also want to thank Susan McGregor, who helped us decipher the data and extract important conclusions from it. Frank Qiankun, Zachary Hanson, and Reed Vettel kindly helped in the dissemination of the survey. The CCSI–E3G survey would not have been possible without the support of E3G, especially Ignacio Arroniz Velasco and Lisa Fischer. And finally, we would like to thank all the industry expert respondents who completed the survey, especially those that went the extra mile to speak to us virtually for follow-up questions. Thank you so muc
Scaling Investment in Renewable Energy Generation to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy) and 13 (Climate Action) and the Paris Agreement: Roadblocks and Drivers
No full textThe zero-carbon energy transition is the solution to the 2022 energy crisis and a fundamental part of the solution to the global climate crisis. But there are relatively low levels of investment in renewable energy in developing countries, hindering their achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and contribution to the Paris Agreement goals. There is therefore an urgent need to scale public and private finance for investment in renewable electricity generation, network infrastructure, and end-use sectors.
Five main roadblocks in the way are identified:
Developing countries lack the necessary access to low-cost capital to invest in renewables.
There is a lack of investment in grid and storage infrastructure and a lack of solutions addressing the off-taker risk.
There are insufficient domestic regulatory frameworks for renewable electricity and ill-designed incentives as well as an under-developed institutional capability.
Existing regulatory frameworks—in law, contract, and investment treaties—can limit developing country governments’ policy space to implement and adapt policies to promote and leverage investment in renewables.
Developing countries’ national energy roadmaps and master plans are either non-existent or ill-designed.
The CCSI reports not only identify these roadblocks, but also provide solutions to drive investment in renewables.
The report sheds light on the five roadblocks and provides recommendations for the drivers of investment in renewables while distilling solutions from international experience. It clarifies where international and national efforts should urgently be focused to address the deterrents of investment in renewables and enable zero-carbon energy security and prosperity.We thank the following reviewers for their helpful comments and guidance on this report: Jérôme Schmitt, Miguel Muñoz Rodriguez, Gonzalo Saenz De Miera, Marco Serena, and Bruce Usher. We were also guided and supported enormously by Lisa Sachs throughout the project, from its inception to its final stages. We would like to thank Jack Arnold, who spent countless days fixing (and refixing) the footnotes in the report; Ethan Henry Goldstein, Yuko Hashimoto, Aarushi Sahu, and Duoye Xu for their invaluable contributions to the design, analysis, and research of this report and the CCSI–E3G survey; and Jérôme Schmitt and Tom Mitro, who were instrumental at the design phase of the CCSI–E3G survey. We were privileged to have had insightful conversations on various topics throughout the research and writing of this report with Jérôme Schmitt, Lou Wells, Joe Bell, George Kahale III, Haydn Palliser, and the AES team. We also want to thank Susan McGregor, who helped us decipher the data and extract important conclusions from it. Frank Qiankun, Zachary Hanson, and Reed Vettel kindly helped in the dissemination of the survey. The CCSI–E3G survey would not have been possible without the support of E3G, especially Ignacio Arroniz Velasco and Lisa Fischer. And finally, we would like to thank all the industry expert respondents who completed the survey, especially those that went the extra mile to speak to us virtually for follow-up questions. Thank you so muc
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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