The Impact of Climate Change on Wind and Solar Resources in Southern Africa

Charles Fant and Adam Schlosser

No wp-2013-071, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Climate change is an issue that requires global attention and co-operation. As climate science develops an understanding of changes to the future climate state, policy makers and engineering project planners beg to know what claims can be made on the subject with a reasonable level of confidence. A common and popular mitigation strategy for reducing emissions is to build away from carbon intensive electricity production to clean energy sources like the energy produced from wind and solar irradiation. These sources themselves are climate dependent.

Keywords: Climate change; Power resources; Renewable energy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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