Global Governing Gaps and Accountability Traps for Solar Energy and Storage

气候危机刺激了全球对可再生能源的竞争，大大增加了太阳能和锂离子电池的使用。该项目调查了这些技术对环境和社会影响的全球治理。这一点很重要，因为监管滞后于技术：存在需要保护的治理“缺口”

The climate crisis has spurred the global race for renewables, dramatically increasing solar energy and lithium-ion storage battery use. This project investigates the global governance of these technologies environmental and social impacts. This is significant because regulation lags technology: there are governance 'gaps' for protecting communities, ecosystems, and developing states, and accountability 'traps' that prioritise governance processes over outcomes. The project examines how solar and storage production, use, and disposal is governed and whether governance initiatives can account for harm. The expected outcomes are to determine whether global governance can regulate renewables, with benefit for improving global protection rules.