Clean Energy Technologies as a Way to Combat the Climate Crisis

Abstract

Policymakers around the world have intensified their efforts to combat the climate crisis, which include developing clean energy technologies. However, policymakers encounter several challenges in the course of their efforts. This chapter discusses the advantages, challenges, and risks of relying on policymakers to lead the development of clean energy technologies. Given the urgency of climate change, it is also important to explore alternative development pathways led by others to combat the climate crisis. To that end, advantages and risks of development pathways led by Industry and the larger civic society are also discussed in this chapter. By drawing trends from case studies, future endeavourers into clean energy development can learn important lessons from those who have gone before them, identify the critical actors, and the ways to mitigate risks.