Governing Energy Transitions

As the world moves with increasing urgency to mitigate climate change and catalyze energy transitions to net zero, understanding the governance mechanisms that will unlock barriers to energy transitions is of critical importance. This book examines how the clean energy regime complex – the fragmented, complex sphere of governance in the clean energy issue area characterized by proliferating and overlapping international institutions – can be effective in fostering energy transitions at the domestic level, particularly in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs). Through comparative case studies of geothermal development in Indonesia and the Philippines, the chapters provide two different tales of energy transitions, demonstrating how domestic factors have hindered or facilitated progress. This book will be useful for students, researchers, and practitioners working in international relations, energy politics, political science, development studies, public policy, international law, and sociology. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Kathryn Chelminski is Visiting Fellow in the Watson Institute Climate Solutions Lab at Brown University and Energy Policy Researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. She received her PhD in International Relations/Political Science at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. Dr. Chelminski is an energy policy expert with more than 12 years of experience spanning academia, the clean energy industry, government, and international organizations. She previously held postdoctoral fellowship affiliations with the Environmental Governance Lab at the University of Toronto and the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University, and predoctoral research fellowships with the Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center and the Judge Business School Energy Policy Research Group at the University of Cambridge.