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121. Mark Robinson and Maja de Vibe on Corruption Risks in Renewable Energy

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Show Notes

How can the renewable energy sector learn from the corruption risks that have plagued the extractive industries for decades to ensure a just energy transition?

Mark Robinson, Executive Director of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), and Maja de Vibe, the Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer at Statkraft discuss their new working paper ‘Good governance and the just transition: Implications for renewable energy companies’, published by the Basel Institute. Mark and Maja discuss the critical corruption and governance risks facing the renewables sector; the commonalities and differences in risk between this sector and extractives corruption; and what role collective action and multi-stakeholder engagement could play in the governance of the sector in the future.

You can find their paper here: https://baselgovernance.org/publications/wp-53

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