scholarly journals Coco-Power: Exploring Copra-Derived Biodiesel for Grid Connected Electricity in Vanuatu

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Timothy George Hewitt
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
Feasibility Assessment ◽  
Financial Feasibility ◽  
Open Discourse ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
International Climate ◽  
Carbon Finance ◽  
Change Mitigation

<p>This research assesses the financial feasibility of a large scale copra-based biodiesel refinery in Vanuatu and whether any carbon finance could be sought to improve the viability of the project. The research cannot be perfectly predictive of the next fifteen years of financial situation, however, the research can quite accurately replicate the feasibility assessment that potential investors would make. The research finds that the project is not financially viable under current projections without carbon finance. The research also shows that carbon finance could be sought from a number of sources in order to make the project feasible. Under current projections the research finds that utilising the clean development mechanism would add approximately 2.9 million United States Dollars (USD) to the present value of the project. The conclusion from these results is that the proposed biodiesel project is sufficiently profitable to attract investors. The primary recommendation resulting from the research is that the stakeholders to the proposed biodiesel project begin an open discourse to work through any issues in order to develop a sustainable copra-based biodiesel refinery in Vanuatu to produce a substitute for the import of fossil diesel used for electricity generation in Port Vila. The secondary recommendation is that international climate change policy negotiators should keep in mind the full set of barriers when addressing the uptake of clean technology in developing countries; often it may not only be the financial feasibility that is preventing climate change mitigation activities.</p>

scholarly journals Coco-Power: Exploring Copra-Derived Biodiesel for Grid Connected Electricity in Vanuatu

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Timothy George Hewitt
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
Feasibility Assessment ◽  
Financial Feasibility ◽  
Open Discourse ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
International Climate ◽  
Carbon Finance ◽  
Change Mitigation

<p>This research assesses the financial feasibility of a large scale copra-based biodiesel refinery in Vanuatu and whether any carbon finance could be sought to improve the viability of the project. The research cannot be perfectly predictive of the next fifteen years of financial situation, however, the research can quite accurately replicate the feasibility assessment that potential investors would make. The research finds that the project is not financially viable under current projections without carbon finance. The research also shows that carbon finance could be sought from a number of sources in order to make the project feasible. Under current projections the research finds that utilising the clean development mechanism would add approximately 2.9 million United States Dollars (USD) to the present value of the project. The conclusion from these results is that the proposed biodiesel project is sufficiently profitable to attract investors. The primary recommendation resulting from the research is that the stakeholders to the proposed biodiesel project begin an open discourse to work through any issues in order to develop a sustainable copra-based biodiesel refinery in Vanuatu to produce a substitute for the import of fossil diesel used for electricity generation in Port Vila. The secondary recommendation is that international climate change policy negotiators should keep in mind the full set of barriers when addressing the uptake of clean technology in developing countries; often it may not only be the financial feasibility that is preventing climate change mitigation activities.</p>

Climate Change Policy and Law in China

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex L. Wang
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Greenhouse Gases ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Climate Change Negotiations ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
Climate Change Response ◽  
International Climate ◽  
Change Response ◽  
First Time

This chapter outlines China’s developing climate change response. The nation is the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases and the largest consumer of energy. China’s engagement in the international climate change negotiations can be divided into three phases: a ‘learning’ phase from 1989 to 1995; a shift toward more active participation between 1995 and 2007; and more comprehensive engagement on climate change domestically and internationally around the time of the UN Climate Conference in Bali in 2007. Shortly before the conference, Chinese authorities announced for the first time a comprehensive National Climate Change Program. It presented a range of existing policies created earlier to address other energy and environmental issues.

Russia will lag on climate action despite policy shift

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Russian Government ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
Climate Action ◽  
Policy Shift ◽  
International Climate

Subject Climate change policy views in Russia. Significance After years of delay, the Russian government has acceded to the Paris Agreement to limit global warming. This is a positive step, although the decision is more symbolism than substance. Moscow's obligations under the agreement are very limited and powerful domestic interests are obstructing implementation of a more active climate policy. Impacts Due to warming in the Arctic, Russia plans to increase cargo traffic along its Arctic maritime route to 80 million tonnes per year by 2024. As Russia promotes itself as an international climate leader, state-owned Rusnano is promoting high-tech solutions to emissions reductions. Objections to radical policy change will not be couched in the language of climate change denial.

Learning about Climate Change: Finance Ministries in International Climate Change Politics

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakob Skovgaard
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Market Failure ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
Large Degree ◽  
Climate Change Negotiations ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
International Climate ◽  
Climate Change Politics ◽  
International Climate Change

In the course of the last four years, finance ministries have increasingly become involved in the international climate change negotiations. Their involvement has to a large degree been an outcome of the framing of climate change as a market failure. This framing calls for an active climate change policy and is at odds with the framing of climate change policy that was previously predominant in finance ministries: that it constitutes expenditure to be avoided. The persistence of both framings has led to clashes within and between finance ministries with respect to climate change. The article calls for further research focusing on the role of the two frames and of finance ministries as actors in climate change politics.

scholarly journals Two Birds with One Stone: The political and environmental motives of Quebec’s climate change policy

Federalism-E ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-29
Author(s):  
Rebecca Teare
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Kyoto Protocol ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Energy Industry ◽  
The Political ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
International Climate ◽  
Political Dispute

In 2000 Quebec was about to host its provincial counterparts for that year’s Joint Meeting of Ministers of the Environment and Energy in an effort to work in unison for the benefit of all Canadians and the environment. Quebec’s Ministers were clear about their position on climate change policy. In their province, Quebec’s policy will prevail. Federalism lies at the heart of the political dispute between Quebec and the federal government over the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol. Quebec has pressured the federal government to maintain its commitments to the international community, and has been critical of its approach to meeting them. It has seriously considered the commitments Canada has made, and in the process, diverged from federal climate change policy by taking a more global perspective. This has enabled the province to generate greater provincial powers within Canada, in line with the Quebec Liberal Party’s concept of federalism. This essay will investigate climate change policy in Quebec after the Quiet Revolution, focusing on the differences between this province and the federal government’s approach to international climate change agreements—specifically the Kyoto Protocol. Quebec has developed firmer climate change policy than the federal government. While this is possible because of Quebec’s energy industry and the fact that it does not have to compromise with other jurisdictions in the federation, it has provided an additional outlet for the Quebecois sense of distinctiveness in Canada. This essay will argue that Quebec pursues a more ambitious climate change policy than the federal government in order to increase its provincial powers within the Canadian federation.[...]

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