Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Bodas-Freitas, Isabel Maria
Author-Email: Isabel-Maria.BODASFREITAS@grenoble-em.com
Author-Workplace-Name: Grenoble Ecole de Management, and Politecnico di Torino
Author-Name: Dantas, Eva
Author-Email: eva.dantas@die-gdi.de
Author-Workplace-Name: German Development Institute, and Science and Technology Policy
	 Research Unit(SPRU), University of Sussex
Author-Name: Iizuka, Michiko
Author-Email: iizuka@merit.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT
Title: The global institutional frameworks and the diffusion of renewable energy 
	 technologies in the BRICS countries 
Abstract: This paper examines the role of the global institutional frameworks on 
	 the national processes of innovation diffusion. we focus on the 
	 influence of the Kyoto mechanisms on the diffusion of renewable energy 
	 technologies in the BRICS countries i.e. Brazil, China India, Russia and 
	 South Africa. Our preliminary analysis suggests that the Kyoto 
	 Mechanisms may support the diffusion of some simple, low cost and mature 
	 technologies which are already diffused in the host countries, rather 
	 than the diffusion of new renewable energy technologies. This 
	 observation raises questions about the extent to which the Kyoto 
	 Mechanisms at its present state create major incentives for the 
	 diffusion of new renewable energy technologies in the BRICS, in the 
	 absence of a indigenous technological efforts and capabilities in new 
	 renewable technologies and national policy initiatives to attract and 
	 leverage the implementation of Kyoto Mechanism projects to support 
	 technology diffusion. We analyse these issues theoretically as well as 
	 empirically making use of national aggregated data from the World 
	 Development Indicators, the International Energy Agency, the United 
	 Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and secondary sources.
Classification-JEL: O33, O19, O13
Keywords: technology diffusion, renewable energy, global institutions, BRICS,
	 Kyoto mechanisms 
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2010
Number: 045
File-URL: http://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/wppdf/2010/wp2010-045.pdf
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File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2010045