The crucial role of complementarity, transparency and adaptability for designing energy policies for sustainable development

Pahle, Michael, Schaeffer, Roberto, Pachauri, Shonali, Eom, Jiyong, Awasthy, Aayushi, Chen, Wenying, Di Maria, Corrado ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3048-0506, Jiang, Kejun, Hen, Chenmin, Portugal-Pereira, Joana, Safanov, George and Verdolini, Elena (2021) The crucial role of complementarity, transparency and adaptability for designing energy policies for sustainable development. Energy Policy, 159. ISSN 0301-4215

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Abstract

The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement have ushered in a new era of policymaking to deliver on the formulated goals. Energy policies are key to ensuring universal access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy (SDG7). Yet they can also have considerable impact on other goals. To successfully achieve multiple goals concurrently, policies need to balance different objectives and manage their interactions. Refining previously contemplated design principles, we identify three key principles - complementary, transparency and adaptability - as highly pertinent for multiple-objective energy policies based on a synthesis of seventeen coordinated policy case studies. First, policies should entail complementary measures and design provisions that specifically target non-energy objectives (complementarity). Second, policy impacts should be tracked comprehensively in both energy and non-energy domains to uncover diminishing returns and facilitate policy learning (transparency). Third, policies should be capable of adapting to changing objectives over time (adaptability). These principles are rarely considered in current policies, implying the need to mainstream them into the next generation of policymaking by pointing to best practices and new tools.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: energy policies,sustainable development,adaptability,complementarity,transparency,energy policies,energy(all),management, monitoring, policy and law,sdg 7 - affordable and clean energy ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2100
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Economics
University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE)
University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Applied Econometrics And Finance
Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Economic Theory
Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Environment, Resources and Conflict
Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Behavioural and Experimental Development Economics
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Date Deposited: 19 Oct 2021 01:14
Last Modified: 08 Mar 2024 16:31
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/81757
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112662

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