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Potential of Kyoto Protocol in Transfer of Energy Technologies to Insular Countries

In order to reduce the cost of meeting targets, the countries committed to greenhouse gases reductions under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will depend on cheaper reductions elsewhere. This will give a financial incentive, through Clean Development Mechanism, for dissemination of clean energy technologies. The paper focuses on the case of small island developing states and shows, by assessing the case of the island of Santo Antăo, Cape Verde, that even when the emission reduction is small, there is a potential for establishing strong market presence of renewable energy technologies. The implications of different scenarios of development of electrical energy system are studied, comparing renewable energy scenarios to a baseline scenario. The potential for financing the technology transfer is quantified and its influence on different electricity system planning scenarios estimated.

greenhouse gases; energy system; renewable energy

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