Industrialization and climate change - An interview with Kenneth Strzepek
Channel: UNU-WIDER
Date: 2016-10-21

One of the big barriers to development, particularly in Africa, is energy and its importance in driving industrialization and structural change. At the same time, energy is now very much tied to climate policies.

As we look at Africa, we have two issues to address: how do we supply the energy to the growing population which already has an energy deficit and how those energy choices are impacted by climate policy?

Kenneth Strzepek of the Joint Progam on the Science and Policy of Global Change at MIT analyses the energy options of Africa and discusses the collaboration between MIT and UNU-WIDER within the African Energy Futures project.

0:15 What are you trying to do with the African Energy Futures project?

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