The thousands of water protectors and their supporters camping by the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation scored a major victory on Sunday, December 4, when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said it wouldn't grant a permit to builders of the planned Dakota Access Pipeline to drill under the Missouri River.
The announcement, a significant milestone in the effort to compel the government to recognize Native sovereignty over tribal lands, came one day before a deadline given to protesters to clear out of the camps they had constructed to oppose construction of the pipeline. Throughout the previous week, thousands of people had arrived to protect the camp from any attempt by law enforcement to uproot it.
Questions remain about what will happen next. The Army Corps has said it will consider an alternative route, and President-elect Donald Trump favors completion of the pipeline project. But for now, the pipeline is stopped, giving protesters time to continue their organizing efforts.
Here, we publish eyewitness accounts by contributors to SocialistWorker.org from New York City--Leia Petty, Edna Bonhomme, Emily Brooks, Sumaya Awad and Dorian Bon--who traveled to North Dakota for this weekend to show solidarity with the #NoDAPL struggle.
We started where everyone does--at the 9 a.m. orientation for newcomers in the Big Dome, a white dome structure erected by water protectors for larger ceremonial gatherings. It's also where the Saturday night Circle Dance took place, where camp councils focused on various topics--such as direct action, winterization and women's meetings--met and where Dr. Cornel West was scheduled to speak.
The orientation for newcomers began with prayer, like so much else at the camp--before and after meetings, daily walks to the river, and throughout speeches at the Sacred Fire. There is tremendous pride among the Indigenous leadership of the camp in sharing customs, prayers and dance with those arriving from across the country.
We were welcomed into a way of life that has been systematically stripped away for hundreds of years and kept alive in small pockets throughout the country. Standing Rock has provided a place where these customs are taking on a new life.
There were close to 300 newcomers at the orientation. As we were struggling to squeeze into the tent, someone quipped, "This is what it means to be all one people." Solidarity runs deep at Standing Rock, and it has quickly blossomed into self-sustaining and self-governing town, making Standing Rock the 10th-largest city in North Dakota, possibly larger once all of the 2,000 military veterans en route to protect the camp finish arriving.
The solidarity comes in many different forms. Some 700 Indigenous nations have representatives here, and their flags line Flag Road, which serves as the main street of Oceti Sakowin, the main resistance camp. It's the first time so many Natives have come together since the 19th century. This solidarity is shown by showing up, as the Lakota woman who helped run the orientation said as tears ran down her face: "We called for you, and you came. Thank you."
The question-and-answer session turned into an open mic session, in which people told where they came from and why they were here--from Indigenous nations, to delegations of chaplains, to individuals who found their way here on their own because they couldn't stay away.
Muhammad, an Iraqi-American, flew from Phoenix after a call went out over Twitter that the school they are building needed firewood. He flew in late Friday and made multiple trips back and forth from Bismarck, North Dakota, to help transport building supplies for the school.
Cornelia, a blind woman in her late 50s from New Hampshire, traveled three days in a truck carrying 238 straw bales after she heard they were needed as windbreakers. After delivering the hay bales they purchased, she helped wash dishes in one of the kitchens and said she loved the feel of the ice under her feet. Her friend Tim from Massachusetts worried she might fall as she played on the ice. She assured him she has a great sense of balance.
From the moment we arrived, it was clear that there was no way the Army Corps of Engineers would be able to carry out their eviction notice. In every direction, the camp was expanding, the numbers were swelling, and supply trucks were arriving with donations.
The infrastructure had simply become too massive--there are now nine kitchens serving three meals per day, and a medic camp with five different yurts dedicated to urgent care, herbalists, midwifery/women's health, acupuncture and body work.
On my last morning there, I unfortunately got sick. Yet despite the difficult circumstances was given immediate and incredibly compassionate care--from the people who helped me to the medic tent, to the nurses who cared for me, and the herbalist who made a specific tea for my diagnosed ailment.
There was an openness all around, greetings when you walk past your new neighbors on the roads, conversations while waiting for the bathroom, new friends made while eating at communal tables. When the time and place of the Circle Dance was communicated at the Sacred Fire, the announcer said, "If you don't know what a Circle Dance is, come find out."
Hundreds of people packed into the White Dome at 8 p.m., and hundreds more cycled through late into the night, many retuning to the main kitchen afterward for a late dinner. The singers and drummers stood facing each other in the very center of the dome with hundreds of people from all walks of life surrounding them, two-stepping a circle around them.
There was a self-organized security system, garbage collecting, donation sorting, fire keepers, construction, volunteer coordinating, winterization and direct action.
You could hear spontaneous calls and responses of "Mni Wiconi!" ("Water is life!") throughout the day and night. Some sounded like greetings, others sounded like battle cries.
There was also the more spontaneous self-organization of someone seeing a need and stepping in to address it. I met Joey in the main kitchen where I was working. He had planned to come for a few days and had ended up staying for weeks.
He had just finished building the Animal House, a rescue place for dogs without an owner. The first dog there had become separated from his owner, who was a medic with hypothermia and was being treated at a nearby hospital. He was now in good hands.
While I was in the medic tent, there was strategizing about how to handle the increased numbers of people coming in with injuries from falling on the ice. They were looking into metal attachments for elders, the main people at risk of serious injury from falling, to place on shoes. Someone then arrived to donate two snowmobiles they could use to transport medics and patients.
Respect and care for elders stands in such stark contrast to how the elderly are treated in the world outside the camp. Elder water protectors are being provided with better medical services inside Oceti Sakowin than is often available in their local community or through the criminally underfunded Indian Health Service. Seats are given up to elders, and their food is served first. At the main kitchen, lunch was running late and dozens of people waited while we went on food deliveries around the center of camp to ensure elders and fire keepers were fed.
The camp expanded massively throughout the weekend, with a line of cars as far as the eye could see as they waited to enter the camp all day Saturday and Sunday. There is no question that the arrival of military veterans, numbering in the thousands, was decisive in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers deciding to deny the permit. They had hoped that their eviction notice, threats of fines and harassment of those bringing in supplies would deter solidarity. It was deepened instead.
My days at Oceti Sakowin gave a glimpse, more so than anything else I've experienced, of the power of self-organization--that if it were up to us, we would have an entirely different way of running things and relating to each other.
The Indigenous struggle for self-determination has been going on for more than 500 years, and yesterday's victory is a reflection of the incredible efforts of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people who have gathered to fight for clean water and land.
As one Lakota person said at the orientation, this was the first time in 140 years that neighboring tribes reached consensus on an issue. The Dakota Access Pipeline posed a threat--to incur further environmental damage, disturb sacred ground and undermine Indigenous sovereignty--and so this unified resistance brought the greed and profit of Energy Transfer Partners to heel.
On December 3, at the daily direct action meeting, which happens at 2 p.m., organizers described how the actions--whether they were marches or prayers--would be nonviolent. This dovetailed with the broader message of having no weapons, alcohol or drugs on site. This was a place where people would gather and resist with a clear mind and spirit.
After the direct action meeting, I spoke with Lisia Williams, a 36-year-old African American member of Service Employees International Union from Flint, Michigan, who came to Standing Rock in solidarity because of Flint's own fight for clean water. She said: "Water is life. History is being repeated. Labor will play an important role, but labor has to listen to the people and bring different elements to the movement."
When I asked a resident of Bemidji, Minnesota, why he came to Standing Rock, he said that his town was struggling with a company that had several pipelines going through their county. In a town whose population is 25 percent Native American and which has high unemployment, he immediately saw the parallel with Standing Rock.
On the night of December 3, I worked in the kitchen from 9:30 p.m. until 11:20 p.m. As someone who has worked in the restaurant industry before, this was the first time that I was in a multigenerational and multiethnic kitchen where people were laughing and smiling. People were genuinely happy to be there.
On December 4, early-morning prayer began at 6 a.m. By 7:30 a.m., as dawn was setting in, a history lesson began, in which a Lakota historian and teacher made parallels between surveillance under the Israeli occupation of Palestinians and the surveillance of Natives under the Bureau of Indian Affairs. He continued by dismantling the stereotypes that Native peoples do not pay taxes--in fact, they have paid taxes through the Homestead Act and the Dawes Act.
An Indigenous woman from the Pacific Northwest spoke about her tribe and its struggle to exist. I was reminded of the Palestinian solidarity group "Existence Is Resistance."
That same day, Cornel West spoke to an interfaith gathering of about 400 people about the need for solidarity and struggle. "Water represents the beauty of humanity," he proclaimed.
The beauty of the weekend was seeing everyday people run this whole community that has sprung up in recent months. People were there because of something greater than themselves, and they were infused with an unmistakable positive energy. In the end, they won because solidarity was strong and spirits were high.
We entered the Oceti Sakowin encampment at night, so we couldn't see the bustling landscape of tents, teepees and people until the morning. We were welcomed by a friendly camp security person who gave us directions to the location where we planned to stay.
We drove past a large red dumpster and a 10-foot-tall snowman named "S-NO-w DAPL" to a partially winterized platform tent. Our tent, which housed a wood-burning stove, had been built by New York City teachers who came before us to Standing Rock.
When we woke up, we threw on the layers and layers of warm clothing that had been donated by friends and supporters in New York and headed out into the cold.
In the light of morning, we could see the fully functioning community of Oceti Sakowin. The Sacred Fire situated off Flag Road serves as a space of prayer and communal gathering. The fire is kept burning at all times, and people make offerings of tobacco and sage. Tents around the fire provide coffee and hot water, post daily schedules and host music and messages of solidarity.
We went to the media area known as Facebook Hill to get press passes, but because of the massive influx of people, the tent had run out. Kids were laughing and sledding down Facebook Hill.
We went to one of the camp's nine kitchens to help out, but they were overwhelmed with volunteers. So we chatted with folks as we waited for a lunch of alpaca soup, bean soup and apple fritters.
Morgan, a student who had driven to the camp from Bar Harbor, Maine, was helping to prepare the meals. She was part of an environmental group on her campus, and they had attended some policy conferences to promote change, but decided that this wasn't getting anywhere. When they heard about the struggle at Standing Rock, they were inspired, and it clicked: Activism and organizing is more effective.
We helped carry plates of food to elders sitting by the fire. Even this small gesture was received with kind and generous expressions of gratitude.
We walked up Flag Road and toward the bridge where the pipeline construction forces were marshaled and where water protectors have been violently attacked by law enforcement. We approached and stood in front of a string extended across the path about 100 yards from the bridge and chatted with the camp security working there. He told us that this line had been drawn by camp elders.
From where we stood, we could see the barricades of trucks on the bridge and more vehicles lined up on the road on the opposite riverbank. Harsh spotlights lit the bridge from the opposite side, and a helicopter circled overhead. Seeing these forces assembled on the bridge presented a stark contrast to the camp and provided an ever-present reminder of why we were there.
As we walked back, we passed a man standing by a truck with a "Veterans for Water" bumper sticker as he passed out hand warmers to people walking by. He asked us to take them and give them to people who looked cold.
Next we came across three people butchering a large leg of beef, which later was served in United Heart kitchen as meat hash. It was delicious.
All around the camp, we saw people building new structures and winterizing existing ones. There was a centralized construction tent, which found ways to put people to work even if they lacked construction skills. Many people around camp were preparing to be there for the long term--or as long as it took to win.
We helped serve food in United Heart kitchen. More than 30 people were working to prepare a meal of turkey gravy, fry bread, squash soup, tamales, coleslaw and beans.
On the morning of Sunday, December 4, the peaceful resistance camps along the banks of the Cannonball River were already bustling when we got word that there was an "important announcement" about to be made about the pipeline.
As word spread through the camp, hundreds of people began flocking towards the Sacred Fire eager to hear if the rumor of a victory was true.
With thousands around the fire and cameras rolling, Dave Archambault II, tribal chairman of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, announced that he had just received news that "the Army Corps of Engineers is going to deny the easement and is asking for a reroute and a full environmental impact statement."
Drums and jubilant shouts erupted in the crisp air. People embraced one another. Some wept as the realization sunk in that we had won an important victory in a long road of struggle.
He continued: "This is no coincidence, this is us...Over 10,000 people who self-organized here--you all did this!"
The celebrations continued with raised fists, more embraces and chants of "Mni wiconi!" Several Native leaders cried out, "Five hundred years of occupation, and we're not going anywhere."
Still, police helicopters continued to hover overhead, and Morton County sheriffs and construction officials occupied the hilltops across the river.
A second Indigenous leader stood up to address the crowd to point out that although this is a great victory, the fight is far from over. He said: "Although they are denied the easement, all that is to them is a penalty--$50,000 per day. They'll pay the fine. They're willing to violate the law with Morton County at their back."
Though the crowd felt empowered by what they had accomplished collectively, questions were posed about what this meant for the camp, the veterans and the coming months ahead.
The tribal leader continued: "We have to stick around and make sure that doesn't happen...We have to keep a presence here. We're not done yet. We're going to keep on fighting, we're going to keep doing what we've been doing here every day."
And beyond this, the question of the looming Trump presidency was also on many people's minds. "It's a victory for us today," Bashir, an Indigenous Muslim activist from the Cheyenne tribe in South Dakota, told us. "But we still have to prepare for Trump coming in. We don't know what he's going to pull out of his bag of tricks."
Another activist told us, "This may just be a tactic." But at the same time, everyone understood that today's victory would never have happened if the thousands assembled there hadn't risen to the occasion and stood united when they were told to disband.
At every mess hall, bench and fire pit, people discussed the victory--how would it impact other pipelines from Alabama to Canada? Will energy corporations start to think twice about the power of protest before sinking investments? Will banks reconsider loans to finance these projects?
One woman, an Iraq war vet, approached us as the celebrations were ongoing. Her message was simple: "We're still marching tomorrow morning. This isn't over."
Meanwhile, the camp kept growing. Cars and buses full of veterans lined up as far as the eye could see to enter Oceti Sakowin. With newfound confidence, water protectors are settling in for a long fight. Mni wiconi.


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The 8th Light Cavalry traces its origins from the 8th King George's Own Light Cavalry which was formed in 1922 by the amalgamation of the 26th King George's Own Light Cavalry and the 30th Lancers following a re-organisation of the Indian Cavalry Corps. Both regiments were regular cavalry units that had had long and distinguished records in the British Indian Army prior to their amalgamation. During World War II the regiment was converted into an armoured car unit and served during the Burma campaign. After India gained Independence the regiment was named 8th Light Cavalry.The regiment is the third oldest armoured regiment in India and is amongst the most highly decorated regiments in the country.

26th King George's Own Light Cavalry
The 26th King George's Own Light Cavalry was originally raised as the 5th Regiment Madras Native Cavalry on 23 October 1787 as part of the Madras Presidency Army. In 1788, it was re-designated as the 1st Madras Native Cavalry and in 1816 its name was changed to 1 Madras Light Cavalry. The Regiment was yet again renamed as the 1st Regiment of Madras Lancers in 1886, and was known by that title till the turn of the century, when it was changed to 1st Madras Lancers.

In 1903 it was renamed as the 26th Light Cavalry and three years later it became the Prince of Wales Own Light Cavalry and then in 1910, it became the 26th King George's Own Light Cavalry. During this time it participated in the Third Mysore War, 1789–1792, the Fourth Mysore War, 1793-1798. Campaigns against Dhoondia Wagh and the Polygars, 1799-1830.  Campaigns in Afghanistan and Burma, between, 1880-1914.

World War I
The 26th King George's Own Light Cavalry served in the South Yemen during World War I as part of the Aden Field Force.

30th Lancers (Gordon's Horse)
The year 1826 witnessed the birth of another illustrious regiment, the 4th Nizam's Cavalry, raised as part of the Hyderabad Cavalry. It later re-christened as the 30th Lancers and also came to be known as Gordon's Horse after Sir John Gordon.
This regiment participated in the Indian Mutiny, 1857–1859 and the Second Burmese War, 1860-1889. From the Second Burmese War to World War I, 1889-1914. Chap V - World War I to the Amalgamation, 1914-1922. Givenchy 1914; France and Flanders 1914-1916; Afghanistan 1919; Iraq 1920.

World War I
During the first world war the Regiment was part of the 3rd (Ambala) Cavalry Brigade, 1st Indian Cavalry Division they were brigaded with the 8th (King's Royal Irish) Hussars and the 9th Hodson's Horse They were sent to France for service on the Western Front where they at times would serve in the trenches as infantry due to the difference on troop levels each Cavalry Brigade once dismounted formed a dismounted regiment.
The high number of officer casualties suffered early on had an effect on its later performance. British officers that understood the language, customs, and psychology of their men could not be quickly replaced, and the alien environment of the Western Front had some effect on the soldiers.
The Regiment stayed in France as part of the 1st Indian Cavalry Division until March 1918 when the division was  broken up and reformed in Egypt.

Amalgamation
In 1922, the two regiments were amalgamated to form the 8th King George's Own Light Cavalry, inheriting in the process, the traditions and rich heritages of two cultures. After India attained independence, the regiment was renamed as the 8th Light Cavalry.

The 1st Regiment Madras Native Cavalry, in its infancy, saw action in Burma and Afghanistan, where it earned the Battle Honours AVA and AFGHANISTAN, indicative of its magnificent performance in both these theatres of war.

Then came the Great War and the 26th King George's Own Light Cavalry was moved to South Yemen as part of the Aden Field Force, where, keeping in the traditions of the regiment, it performed brilliantly.

During this war, 30th Lancers saw action in France where, though being a cavalry regiment, it received a good taste of trench warfare. It then went on to extinguish the embers of an Arab rebellion in Iraq, before going into action in Persia.

By this time, the regiment had earned 12 Battle Honours. With a meritorious history of over a century, it became befitting for King George – V, Colonel of one of the regiments to become the Colonel-in-Chief of the amalgamated regiment. Field Marshal, Lord Chetwode became the first Colonel of the Regiment in 1936.

It is Lord Chetwode's immortal shibboleth – "The safety, honour and welfare of your country come first, always and every time. The honour, welfare and comfort of the men you command come next. Our own ease, comfort and safety come last, always and every time", which became the credo not only for the regiment, but for the entire officer corps of the Indian Army and is etched in main hall of the Indian Military Academy at Dehradun.

World War II
World War II 1939-1945; Waziristan 1939-1943; Vizagapatam 1944; Burma 1945, 19th Indian Division, 1946.

In 1940, the Regiment bid farewell to the horses and began the long and arduous process of mechanisation. It was fully mechanised by 1943 on armoured cars. It executed its first mechanised operation in 1945 in Burma, where it earned 19 gallantry and distinguished service awards in this single operation

Class Composition
The Regiment has a fixed class composition of Jats, Rajputs and Sikhs.

Post Indian Independence
Post independence, the regiment had the  privilege of participating in all major wars fought by the Indian Army – Hyderabad (1948), Jammu and Kashmir (1948), Goa (1961), China (Sikkim) (1962), Pakistan (Punjab) (1965) and Pakistan (Jammu and Kashmir) (1971).

The Regiment took part in Annexation of Hyderabad against the Razakars leading to the formal union of the princely state of Hyderabad with the Union of India. The operations in Hyderabad had just been over, when the regiment was moved to Jammu and Kashmir. During the Liberation of Goa in 1961, the regiment with its AMX-13 tanks spearheaded the attack which led the Portuguese to surrender.

The history of mechanized warfare was re-written by the regiment in 1962, when it drove its AMX-13 tanks to the dizzying heights of 14,000 feet up the Nathu La pass road in Sikkim – a feat never performed or attempted before anywhere in the world.

Khemkaran in Punjab witnessed the regiment in tank-versus-tank encounters with Pakistani forces during the Battle of Asal Uttar resulting in the battlefield becoming a "graveyard" for Pakistani Patton tanks. Here the regiment earned the Battle Honour PUNJAB.

The 1971 Indo-Pak war saw the regiment with their Vijayanta tanks among the Indian forces which had wrung the tactically fragile Chicken's Neck in the Akhnoor Sector.

The Regiment's crowning glory came in 1976, when in recognition of its services and valour, the regiment was presented the Guidon by the then President, Mr Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed.

Regimental Insignia
The present Regimental insignia consists of crossed lances with pennons of Red over White, the numeral "8" inscribed on the crossing of the lances,  topped by a mailed fist with the letter "AC" and a scroll at the base with the words "Light Cavalry" on it. The shoulder title consists of "8C" in brass.

See also
 8th Cavalry (Pakistan)

Notes

References
 Rawlinson, H.G. (1948). The History of 8th King George V's Own Light Cavalry. Gale & Polden Ltd.

External links
Follow this link to view the uniforms of the late 19th Century
 http://www.members.tripod.com/~Glosters/IAcavalry1.htm

British Indian Army cavalry regiments
8th King George V

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x.show()
query = spark.sql("select *  from tagpool_with_tag_raw WHERE input_time = " + str(epoch))  # .format()

    # query = spark.sql("select CAST(input_time AS bigint), CAST(orig_time AS bigint) ,  from tagpool_with_tag_raw WHERE input_time = "+ epoch) #.format()
query.show()
# df.selectExpr(("SELECT * FROM public.tagpool_raw WHERE input_time<= %s".format(epoch)))
df.printSchema()

query.write \
    .format("jdbc") \
    .option("url", URL) \
    .option("dbtable", "tagpool_tag_raw") \
    .option("user", USER) \
    .option("password", PW) \
    .option("driver", DRIVER).save()

A: Readstream are not for jdbc , As jdbc is a batch operation, You will have to create a process just like what you have did and use schedulers like AutoSys or oozie or whatever your enterprise as to run every hour.

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This file is used to list changes made in each version of unicorn.

## 0.3.13:
* DB variables

## 0.3.12:
* mix panel
* memcached
* parse

## 0.3.11:
* SMTP settings

## 0.3.9:
* logentries token

## 0.3.5-0.3.8:
* add elastic search and dropbox url

## 0.3.4:
* Support customized environment on init script (unicorn service)
* Usage on attributes:
	"service": {
        "rails_root": "/some/path",
        "environment": "production",
        "locale": "en_US.UTF-8",
        "user": "balls",
        "bundle": "/usr/bin/bundle",
        "app_root": "/some/path/current",
        "x_spree_client_token": "012345",
        "s3_bucket": "buckets",
        "cloudfront_url": "balls.cloudfront.net",
        "aws_access_key_id": "KEYID",
        "aws_secret_access_key": "KEYSECRET",
        "devise_secret_key": "0asf1234",
        "paperclip_hash_secret": "1223ddfabc" }

## 0.3.0:

* Support `node['unicorn-ng']['service']['name']` attribute, to allow multiple instances
* Remove `node['unicorn-ng']['service']['path']` in favor of name
* Add rubocup and foodcritic checks via Travis

## 0.2.1:

* Make initscript independent from users login shell.

  This fixes a bug happening when starting the initscript with a chruby wrapper on a non-bash shell

## 0.2.0:

* Support wrapper and wrapper\_opts

  This makes the use of chruby-exec and other wrappers possible.

## 0.1.1:

* Use pidfile variable in unicorn.rb

  This fixes a bug with unicorn restart when using config provider with custom pid attribute

## 0.1.0:

* Initial release of unicorn-ng

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Renewable-energy technologies are critically important, both in addressing the risks of climate change and achieving Sustainable Development Goal number 7 (SDG7,) relative to affordable and clean energy. They have also become increasingly cost-competitive: the capital cost of utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) energy has fallen by more than 60 per cent since 2010, and that of onshore wind energy by 20 per cent.
There is no shortage of capital available globally to finance renewable-energy projects. The financial sector encompasses more than €100 trillion of assets. So how is it that investment in renewable energy is not flowing faster?
The trillion-dollar question is how we can shift incentives and strengthen the right conditions to make solar, wind and other renewable power more attractive to investors. To respect the Paris Agreement's goal of limiting temperature rise to well below 2°C, annual investment in renewable energy needs to increase by 150 per cent between now and 2050.
New OECD research shows that incoherent policies, misalignments in electricity markets and cumbersome and risky investment conditions are among the main factors holding back investment and innovation in renewable energy in advanced and emerging countries.
In order to meet renewable energy deployment goals, policy makers need to strengthen investment conditions, from investment policy to competition, trade and financial market policy. And most importantly, specific policy incentives and climate policies should not be considered in isolation from the broader environment for investment and innovation in renewable energy.
At the policy level, scaling up investment in deployed renewables requires designing targeted incentives such as: feed-in tariffs (i.e. a guaranteed minimum price per unit of renewable power generated); renewable energy certificates (a certificate proving that one unit of electricity was generated from a renewables source, which can be sold separately from the underlying physical electricity associated with a renewable-based generation source); and public tenders (which include public competitive bidding or auctions for a set capacity of renewable power).
Feed-in tariffs and certificates in particular have driven investment in advanced countries, leading, for example, to an 11 per cent increase in renewables investment for each additional unit of feed-in tariff, in USD/KWh. Auctions and tenders have supported renewables investment in emerging markets (OECD analysis shows that, historically, increasing the capacity of a tender by 1 MW leads to a 0.1 per cent increase in renewables investment flows).
Explicit carbon prices (using carbon taxes or emissions trading schemes) have driven investment in renewables in the European Union and in emerging economies, and across OECD and G20 countries in solar energy. But at the same time, pressure from fossil-fuel subsidies in the electricity sector has also deterred renewables investment in emerging economies.
Incompatible incentives are worrying on a number of fronts, not only for investment in deployed renewables but also innovation in earlier-stage renewables technologies. An example: feed-in tariffs stimulate renewable-energy patents, yet policy across OECD countries and emerging economies has been shifting away from FiTs toward public tenders, to adjust to changing market conditions, control the deployment of large-scale renewables, and reduce costs for consumers.
Also, government spending in research, development and demonstration (RD&D) for low-carbon technologies is at historic lows. This has negative implications for innovation; OECD research shows that public RD&D expenditures have thus far played an important role in stimulating patenting in renewables technologies.
In addition to aligning our incentives, we need to take advantage of the fact that some climate mitigation policies enhance the positive effects of other policies when they are combined. For example, setting carbon prices while providing public RD&D spending in renewables technologies has worked well for mobilising renewables investment in emerging markets. In OECD countries, Denmark has become a leader in renewables technologies, including by providing integrated, sector-wide policy support to RD&D and deployment of renewables.
Finally, we need to work at making sure that the broader investment environment isn't at odds with low-carbon investment. For example, the implementation of Basel III banking regulations – though they are important – also may have had the unintended consequence of constraining access to debt financing for capital-intensive renewable projects. Investment in renewable energy and other low-carbon technologies needs to take place on a far greater scale if we are to achieve the ambition of the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals. Evidence-based research and stakeholder co-operation are needed to help policy makers design effective public policies that facilitate the transition to a low-carbon economy. The OECD stands ready to support these critical goals, as part of the OECD Centre on Green Finance and Investment.


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