Factors That Enable or Hinder the Transition of Some Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries to Green Energy

<p>Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries continue to play a strategic role in the global energy system. They account for a fifth of the global oil production and enjoy relatively high GDP per Capita, and their economies heavily rely on oil-producing and exporting at a time when the West is pushing towards net-zero, low-carbon emissions by 2050. This study focuses on the energy sector and takes a transdisciplinary look at Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and tries to understand how these rentier monarchies that have built a solid global comparative advantage in producing and exporting oil and oil-related products and created well-managed, profitable, state-owned enterprises can transition to green energy. Working within the frameworks of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, World Economic Forum's Energy Transition Readiness Index, and Global Competitiveness, as well as Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Green Future index, this study will attempt to provide a critical assessment of these three monarchies' domestic political, economic, regional, geopolitical, competitive, and social instabilities, identifying the factors that will enable or hinder their transition to green energy and the incentives that will encourage the political leaders to adopt policies to drive the transition.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Political Science and Economics, PhD interfield

Level thesis:degree_level

Open Access Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

School of Social Science, Politics, and Evaluation

Year dc:date.available

2023

Author dc:creator

• KeukPanossian, Verkine

Contributors dc:contributor

• Yi Feng
• Ambassador Sallama Shaker

• Diversification
• Economic Growth
• GCC
• Hydrocarbons
• Renewable Energy
• Transition to Green Energy
• Economic Theory
• International Relations
• Political Science

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/754

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarship.claremont.edu:cgu_etd-1776