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Sustainable energy pathways for Africa

Africa has the potential to be a major global player in renewable energy production and carbon dioxide removal. This project will create a framework for evaluating decarbonization and energy transition pathways for Africa as well as their broader social and environmental implications. Rather than look at Africa as a single aggregated region like most global studies, this project will treat Africa as multiple sub-regions within a global economy-wide model to capture their differences in resources and potential interactions among them.

Project leaders
Research staff
Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy; MIT Energy Initiative
Research staff
Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy