Laissez faire and the Clean Development Mechanism: determinants of project implementation in Indian states, 2003-2011

被引:9
作者
Bayer, Patrick [1 ,2 ]
Urpelainen, Johannes [3 ]
Xu, Alice [4 ]
机构
[1] Washington Univ, Dept Polit Sci, St Louis, MO 63130 USA
[2] Washington Univ, Program Int & Area Studies, St Louis, MO 63130 USA
[3] Columbia Univ, Dept Polit Sci, New York, NY 10027 USA
[4] Harvard Univ, Dept Govt, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
关键词
Climate policy; International institutions; Clean Development Mechanism; India; Sub-national variation; CDM;
D O I
10.1007/s10098-014-0746-3
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
083001 [环境科学];
摘要
India is the world's second-largest host of projects implemented under the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). There is, however, considerable variation in the distribution of CDM projects implemented across different Indian states. While a large body of the literature examines cross-national variation in the implementation of CDM projects, few studies have analyzed the determinants of sub-national variation in different national contexts. We theorize that given India's laissez-faire approach to CDM project implementation the availability of profitable climate mitigation opportunities and the political stability are two factors that promote CDM project implementation. Using sub-national data collected from a variety of sources, we conduct systematic analysis that provides empirical support for a set of hypotheses regarding the effects of these variables on project implementation. First, we find that states with a lot of public electricity-generating capacity and industrial capital implement more CDM projects than other states. Additionally, project developers rarely propose CDM projects during election years as a result of high levels of political uncertainty associated with those years. Our findings show that India's liberal approach prevents the central government from using the CDM to promote sustainable development in less developed states. In India and other host countries where coordinated national policies to maximize their gains from CDM projects is absent, there is a paucity of project implementation in states that need it the most.
引用
收藏
页码:1687 / 1701
页数:15
相关论文
共 29 条
[1]
The Rescaling of Global Environmental Politics [J].
Andonova, Liliana B. ;
Mitchell, Ronald B. .
ANNUAL REVIEW OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES, VOL 35, 2010, 35 :255-282
[2]
[Anonymous], CDM1
[3]
Arora D. S., 2010, NRELTP6A2048948
[4]
Who uses the Clean Development Mechanism? An empirical analysis of projects in Chinese provinces [J].
Bayer, Patrick ;
Urpelainen, Johannes ;
Wallace, Jeremy .
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS, 2013, 23 (02) :512-521
[5]
Benecke G., 2009, Journal of Environment & Development, V18, P346, DOI 10.1177/1070496509347085
[6]
Dynamic modeling for persistent event-count time series [J].
Brandt, PT ;
Williams, JT ;
Fordham, BO ;
Pollins, B .
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, 2000, 44 (04) :823-843
[7]
Would preferential access measures be sufficient to overcome current barriers to CDM projects in least developed countries? [J].
Castro, Paula ;
Michaelowa, Axel .
CLIMATE AND DEVELOPMENT, 2011, 3 (02) :123-142
[8]
Curnow P., 2009, Implementing CDM Projects A Guidebook to Host Country Legal Issues
[9]
The clean development mechanism and the international diffusion of technologies:: An empirical study [J].
Dechezlepretre, Antoine ;
Glachant, Matthieu ;
Meniere, Yann .
ENERGY POLICY, 2008, 36 (04) :1273-1283
[10]
Local Actions, Global Impacts: International Cooperation and the CDM [J].
Dinar, Ariel ;
Rahman, Shaikh Mahfuzur ;
Larson, Donald F. ;
Ambrosi, Philippe .
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS, 2011, 11 (04) :108-+