Green growth strategy: The economywide impact of promoting renewable power generation in the Philippines

This study assesses the economywide impact of promoting renewable power generation by targeting a 50 percent share of renewables in energy production by 2040. Using a novel approach by linking a bottom-up energy model with a top-down economywide model, we found that increasing the share of renewables in the power sector could slightly slow down the industrialization process and reduce economic growth. Implementing this policy, however, would allow the country to reduce carbon emissions by 65 million tons in 2040 and improve energy security. The health co-benefit is estimated to reach up to 324... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Pradesha, Angga
Robinson, Sherman
Mondal, Md. Hossain Alam
Valmonte-Santos, Rowena
Rosegrant, Mark W.
Mondal, Alam
Rosegrant, Mark
Dokumenttyp: Discussion paper
Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
Verlag/Hrsg.: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Schlagwörter: PHILIPPINES / SOUTH EAST ASIA / ASIA / renewable energy / energy policies / electricity / energy generation / economic growth / energy demand / greenhouse gas emissions / Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model / energy models / Dutch disease / energy security / TIMES model
Sprache: Englisch
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Link(s) : https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133073

This study assesses the economywide impact of promoting renewable power generation by targeting a 50 percent share of renewables in energy production by 2040. Using a novel approach by linking a bottom-up energy model with a top-down economywide model, we found that increasing the share of renewables in the power sector could slightly slow down the industrialization process and reduce economic growth. Implementing this policy, however, would allow the country to reduce carbon emissions by 65 million tons in 2040 and improve energy security. The health co-benefit is estimated to reach up to 324 billion Philippine pesos (PHP), which levels the welfare loss. Receiving foreign financial inflow as a compensation for reducing carbon emissions could drive the economy into Dutch disease, shifting more economic activities into the nontradable sector. Increasing total investment demand in the future as a policy response could potentially mitigate this effect and improve economic welfare by 155 billion PHP. ; Non-PR ; IFPRI1; CRP2; CRP7; CRP5; 1 Fostering Climate-Resilient and Sustainable Food Supply; 3 Building Inclusive and Efficient Markets, Trade Systems, and Food Industry; Phil-EWF ; DSGD; EPTD; PIM ; CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS); CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE); CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)