Strengthening U.S. International Energy Assistance to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Improve Energy Security
ResearchPublished Sep 10, 2009
This study provides information on U.S. international energy-assistance programs, a potentially important tool for addressing the challenges of reducing global greenhouse gas emissions and increasing U.S. energy security. International energy assistance may provide a low-cost, effective opportunity to reduce future growth in greenhouse gas emissions and oil consumption before current development patterns become increasingly locked in throughout the developing world. The report reviews U.S. government energy-assistance trends and strategies, along with similar data for Germany, which has a different, highly coordinated approach to planning and implementing energy assistance. Recent studies that address U.S. energy and climate policy are also reviewed to gain insights that can inform efforts to improve U.S. energy assistance. Recommendations for further investigation include assessing the effectiveness of U.S. and other approaches to providing energy assistance to determine the reasons for any differences in effectiveness; comparing the longer-term benefits of supporting energy-sector policy reform with the shorter-term benefits of supporting more-specific technical assistance or investment projects; and assessing the advantages and disadvantages of focusing more U.S. energy assistance on fewer recipients.
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- Year: 2009
- Pages: 60
- Document Number: OP-251-RC
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Hassell, Scott, Michael Toman, Liisa Ecola, Tewodaj Mengistu, Endy M. Daehner, Aimee E. Curtright, Noreen Clancy, and Eileen Hlavka, Strengthening U.S. International Energy Assistance to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Improve Energy Security, RAND Corporation, OP-251-RC, 2009. As of September 23, 2024: https://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/OP251.html
Hassell, Scott, Michael Toman, Liisa Ecola, Tewodaj Mengistu, Endy M. Daehner, Aimee E. Curtright, Noreen Clancy, and Eileen Hlavka, Strengthening U.S. International Energy Assistance to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Improve Energy Security. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2009. https://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/OP251.html.
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