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The heterogeneity of energy transition

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Legal mandates are critical to supporting action on sustainable development goals and climate change targets. Yet, new research highlights the importance of initial endowments for energy transitions, and how they can lead to disparate outcomes across regions.

Now, writing in Nature Energy4, Jing Meng and colleagues in the UK and China find that while energy policies in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region have contributed to advancements on some energy-related SDGs, progress towards the energy transition has been heterogeneous among those emerging economies.

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  1. Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Social Sciences, Kingston University London, London, UK

    Shaikh M. S. U. Eskander

  2. Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment (GRI) and Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP), London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

    Shaikh M. S. U. Eskander

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Eskander, S.M.S.U. The heterogeneity of energy transition. Nat Energy 7, 574–575 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-022-01064-z

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