Projekt

Daten zum Projekt

Climate Change Mitigation and Poverty Reduction (CliMiP) - Trade-Offs or Win-Win Situations?

Initiative: Europe and Global Challenges
Bewilligung: 04.10.2012
Laufzeit: 3 Jahre

Projektinformationen

Climate change mitigation by curbing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is one of the biggest global challenges. Decarbonising economic development in fast-growing middle income countries is a necessity to meet this challenge. Decarbonisation may, however, have adverse effects on economic growth and hence poverty reduction. Advocates of green growth, in contrast, claim that mitigation policies will produce win-win situations. These different views will be examined in the multi-disciplinary project that investigates whether the mitigation-poverty reduction nexus is characterized by trade-offs or win-win situations. The question will be approached from a political science, economics and international relations perspective. For three middle income developing countries, Mexico, South Africa, and Thailand, the project analyses (1) the domestic climate and poverty governance systems to identify ?feasible mitigation policies", (2) the poverty and distributional impacts of these policies, and (3) the global discourse on the mitigation-development-justice nexus.

Projektbeteiligte

  • Prof. Dr. Jann Lay

    GIGA German Institute of Global
    and Area Studies
    Hamburg

  • Dr. Miriam Prys

    GIGA German Institute of Global
    and Area Studies
    Regional Power Shifts and Global Order
    Hamburg

  • Britta Rennkamp

    University of Cape Town
    African Climate and Development Initiative
    Energy Research Centre
    Rondebosch, Cape Town
    Südafrika

  • Anan Wattanakuljarus

    Public Policies Institute
    School of Development Economics,
    National Institute of Development Administration
    Bangkok
    Thailand

  • Kridtiyaporn Wongsa

    Public Policies Institute
    Muang, Chiang Mai
    Thailand

  • Francesco Bosello

    Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)
    Venice
    Italien

  • Marinella Davide

    Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)
    Venice
    Italien