Malaysia: How to Scale Up Investment in Renewable Energy
Malaysia set a target of 20% renewables in the energy mix by 2025, an 18% increase from the 2% it had in 2018. One of the planned measures is the development of large-scale solar power. To reach the target, it will be necessary to attract a total of USD 8 billion of renewable energy investment during this period. Considering the fact that Malaysia attracted only USD 2.5 billion from 2006 to 2018, the country will need to attract USD 1.3 billion on average every year from 2019. To achieve this, it will need to undertake serious reform measures to improve the investment climate for renewables and conditions for renewable energy deployment. Given the ever-increasing global competition for renewable energy investment, the rapid implementation of such reforms becomes an imperative. This in turn requires strong governance. We propose five actions that can improve the attractiveness of Malaysia’s investment climate for renewable energy to 2025 and beyond: reform energy governance in favour of renewable energy; ensure streamlined management of the regulatory framework for renewable energy; develop a framework for easier grid connection and use; enhance awareness-raising measures for investors; make market entry easy and attractive.
Tryggingspolitikk i Sør-Kaukasus
Korleis navigerer landa i Sør-Kaukasus mellom stormaktsnaboane sine? Kva moglegheiter og avgrensingar har EU for å øve innverknad i regionen? Og kva interesser har Russland?
The Nordic Balance Revisited: Differentiation and the Foreign Policy Repertoires of the Nordic States
Presentasjon på forskerseminar i internasjonal politikk, Institutt for politikk, Gøteborgs universitet.
Fixers and friends: local and international researchers
While we live in a highly unequal world where your position and place will determine what you have access to. However, based on years of fieldwork in the Sahel, this chapter turns this question around, exploring if it is possible to make inequaity work for mutual benefit. The answer is a modestly yes, and the chapter suggest if not a code of conduct, at least some personal principles of fieldwork that have come to guide my way of doing fieldwork, of making inequality work for mutual benefit.
Moglegheiter og utfordringar for Estland og Noreg i Tryggingsrådet
Kva er moglegheitene og avgrensingane for bilateralt samarbeid mellom Noreg og Estland i Tryggingsrådet?