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Triple wins? Prospects for pro-poor, low carbon, climate resilient energy services in Kenya

Phillips, Jon; Newell, Peter; Pueyo, Ana

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Authors

Peter Newell

Ana Pueyo



Contributors

Fiona Nunan
Editor

Abstract

This chapter describes political economy analysis to raise some unanswered and unasked questions about how energy systems might be redesigned to simultaneously meet climate, development and adaptation goals. Energy systems refer not only to the technology and infrastructures of modern energy production and consumption gas turbines, solar lamps or transmission lines but to the social and political systems through which these technological artefacts emerge and are governed. The chapter provides two Kenyan policy initiatives that attempt to integrate climate change and development priorities in different ways. First is the government incentive for private sector power producers to generate electricity from renewable energy resources. Second is the effort to mainstream climate change concerns into government decision-making and planning, including in the energy sector. Kenya's Climate Change Action Plan is an expression of energy agendas – seeking to expand the space for 'triple win' policies for development, climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Citation

Phillips, J., Newell, P., & Pueyo, A. (2017). Triple wins? Prospects for pro-poor, low carbon, climate resilient energy services in Kenya. In F. Nunan (Ed.), Making Climate Compatible Development Happen (114-129). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315621579-6

Publication Date Jan 1, 2017
Deposit Date Jan 17, 2022
Publicly Available Date Jan 17, 2022
Publisher Routledge
Pages 114-129
Book Title Making Climate Compatible Development Happen
ISBN 9781138657021
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315621579-6
Publisher URL https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315621579-6/triple-wins-prospects-pro-poor-low-carbon-climate-resilient-energy-services-kenya-jon-phillips-peter-newell-ana-pueyo

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This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Nunan, Fiona, (ed.), Making Climate Compatible Development Happen. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 114-129 (2017) available online: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315621579-6 Re-use is subject to the publisher’s terms and conditions





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