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Sam Bickersteth

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Sam is an expert on climate policy and its implementation at national and international levels with experience in government, private sector and NGOs.  He led the Climate and Development Knowledge Network supporting policy change in countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America.  His focus is on climate resilience and the political economy of green energy transitions. He provides strategy and programme advice to a number of networks and organisations and he is a Board member of Christian Aid.

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Off-grid Renewable Energy Investment in Zambia: Demand-side and Sub-national Constraints

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Sam Bickersteth

This second CCG paper produced by Mashekwa Maboshe (University of Zambia), Sam Bickersteth (TPP), and Stephanie Hirmer (CCG) looks at the contrasting context of centralised energy planning in Zambia but with the potential benefits for sub-national renewable investments.  

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Supporting integrated energy planning at the sub-nationa level - The Case of Kenya

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Sam Bickersteth

This brief discusses supporting integrated energy planning at the sub-national level in Kenya, and reflects on the planning and governance issues arising from devolution.

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The Political Economy of Energy Transitions - Policy Brief 17

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Neil McCulloch
Sam Bickersteth

Written by Sam Bickersteth with Neil McCulloch and Meron Tesfamichael, this policy brief draws out some of the common constraints hindering the energy transition in these, and many other, countries in the Global South.  It also shows how PEA can help to identify politically feasible pathways of change in each country demonstrating the importance of PEA as an essential tool to understand energy transition.

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