ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS - PROJECT SUMMARY

An economic assesment of the role of climate change and transboundary cooperation in hydropower production in the Niger Basin

Esther DELBOURG, AXA Research Fellow

• Nationality
  French citizen
• Year of selection
  2011
• Institution
  Ecole Polytechnique
• Country
  France

Project Informations

HYDROPOWER: WHEN POLITICS CAN ACT AS A BUFFER AGAINST CLIMATIC RISK

The risk of conflict over water in Africa depends on a multitude of human (economics, politics, culture and history) and natural factors (geography and climatic uncertainty). Esther Delbourg is studying a critical component in water negotiations: hydropower, an energy that requires high investment costs as well as a proper geographical setting and is highly dependent on climatic features. She has set out to assess the economic impact of climate change on hydropower production using the various relations between hydro-investment, past climatic data and climatic scenarios, cooperation and economic performance. By estimating the impact of hydropower variations on countries’ GDP, her results should help better understand whether climate change will signifi cantly impact future cooperation or confl ict between African transboundary countries.

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