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Climate notes: Renewable energy in northern Africa and in the Middle East

Ursula Triebswetter
ifo Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, München, 2011

ifo Schnelldienst, 2011, 64, Nr. 10, 33-35

The current political instability is a threat to progress in the ambitious renewable energy projects Desertec and Medgrid in northern Africa and in the Middle East. However, the initial projects in Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt show that the positive signals predominate for the use of renewable energy in these regions.

JEL Classification: Q420

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