After reviewing China's involvement in energy, trade and climate change governance and its needs in this respect, this paper explores China's possible interest in a 'Sustainable Energy Trade Agreement' (SETA) approach as a way to address those needs. Subsequently, it identifies international and...

We examine the drivers of private investment in renewable energy by source of funding for 13 global economies over the period 2008 to 2018, with a focus on a sub-panel of Asian economies. Using a seemingly unrelated regression model, we provide a first quantitative estimate of the effect of...

Prices from the competitive procurement of renewable energy sources are increasingly used for the comparative evaluation of financial and technology performance. Comparing prices from auctions or power purchase agreements at their face value is often not meaningful, particularly across...