The International Climate Change Regime and Off-Grid Renewable Electricity

This chapter contains an analysis of the role of international climate change in the development of OGRE. It argues that while the international climate change regime has contributed positively to driving the development of renewable energy, including OGRE, several factors limit its effect. The latter factors include, among other things, the lack of a definition of environmentally sound technologies (ESTs), the adoption of the concessionary form of climate finance, lack of a concrete obligation to transfer ESTs. It was further argued that while subsequent meetings of the Conference of the Parties (COP) including the Glasgow 26th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties 2021 have acknowledged some of the identified lapses: they are yet to be addressed. It concludes that the Paris Climate Change Agreement 2015 remains a progressive document, and there are possibilities that it will be fine-tuned to drive the development of renewable energy, including OGRE, appropriately.