bei Google ScholarTitelangaben
Owino, Omondi R.:
Realizing a Low Carbon Future in the East African Community Energy Sector : Assessment of the Regional Policy and Legislative Framework.
In: The African Review.
Bd. 45
(2018)
Heft 2
.
- S. 154-170.
ISSN 1821-889X
Abstract
The twin concerns of regulating climate change and spurring economic development lie at the intersection of a low carbon development pathway. Legislative measures aimed at curbing climate change are often construed as dampeners on economic development with the assumption that such laws pose a competitive disadvantage for national economies and companies. This article however advances the contrarian argument that, with the ascendancy of renewable energy technologies, it is increasingly becoming clear that `laws to tackle climate change are leading to greater resource and energy efficiency, clean, low carbon growth and improved energy safety. This promise then becomes the premise that is tested along the contours of the EAC regulatory landscape and against the background of regional initiatives in as far as realization of a low-carbon development pathway is concerned. The article makes the conclusion that the varied regional initiatives, policies and legislative measures in the EAC, that ought to advance the realization of a low-carbon pathway are inchoate and beset by several dampeners. The foregoing fact notwithstanding, several drivers of a low-carbon pathway are identifiable. Both the regional and national renewable energy and efficiency measures adopted in the EAC set the stage for a low-carbon development pathway. Upon attaining maturity, it is a valid presupposition that these budding measures can address climate change without necessarily curtailing economic development.
Weitere Angaben
| Publikationsform: | Artikel in einer Zeitschrift |
|---|---|
| Begutachteter Beitrag: | Ja |
| Institutionen der Universität: | Research Networks > African Studies Forschungseinrichtungen > Sonderforschungsbereiche, Forschergruppen > EXC 2052 - Africa Multiple: Afrikastudien neu gestalten |
| Titel an der UBT entstanden: | Nein |
| Themengebiete aus DDC: | 300 Sozialwissenschaften |
| Eingestellt am: | 10 Nov 2026 12:50 |
| Letzte Änderung: | 10 Nov 2026 12:50 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/99757 |