Kathryn Chelminski

Brown University

While many have observed a regime complex for global clean energy governance, research has not yet accorded sufficient attention to the interplay of multiple streams of politics that have led to the structuring of overlapping governance initiatives and, ultimately, the articulation of a set of norms that hold this regime complex together. To unders...

In light of commitments made under the UNFCCC Paris Agreement and Glasgow Climate Pact, trillions of dollars are needed to fund climate mitigation and adaptation in developing countries. However, few studies have investigated the effectiveness of climate finance or how it impacts barriers to renewable energy development in recipient countries. This...

The Politics of Fossil Fuel Subsidies and their Reform - edited by Jakob Skovgaard August 2018

Climate change governance is in a state of enormous flux. New and more dynamic forms of governing are appearing around the international climate regime centred on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). They appear to be emerging spontaneously from the bottom up, producing a more dispersed pattern of governing, which Nob...

Indonesia’s burgeoning energy demand and rising carbon emissions place the sustainable energy transition and energy access priorities at the forefront of the country’s development plans. Yet these objectives can often be contradictory in implementation. With electrification rates lagging behind other countries in the Southeast Asian region (83% ele...