The International Political Economy of rents in the renewable energy sector: assessing the potential for green industrial policies in Latin America

联合国拉丁美洲和加勒比经济委员会（拉加经委会）的后新冠肺炎经济复苏计划旨在建立一种可持续发展模式，该模式基于通过可再生能源部署使经济增长与碳排放脱钩，将改变该地区的经济结构。受结构主义传统的影响，拉加经委会将通过产业政策发展国内生产能力作为防止精神可持续性战略扩大拉丁美洲和全球北方之间差距的关键。然而，拉加经委会的愿景在很大程度上忽视了这一经济转型中的经济趋势，它主要将这一转型视为向更高附加值活动和生产力技术提高的过渡。这似乎是阿萨种严重的盲目运动，因为拉丁美洲与可再生能源部署有关的土地征用被解释为该地区基于租金的发展的采掘主义模式的延续，以及主流和非主流产业政策文献对发展和经济租金之间复杂关系的重要性。在这种情况下，本项目将以墨西哥和巴西为例，探讨可再生能源部门的租金关系如何影响拉美政府利用绿色产业政策追求可持续发展模式的能力

The post-Covid economic recovery plan of the UN'sEconomic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean(ECLAC) aims to establish a sustainable model ofdevelopment which, based on the decoupling of economicgrowth and carbon emissions through renewable energydeployment, would transform the economic structure of theregion. Informed by the structuralist tradition, ECLACdefends the development of domestic productivecapabilities through industrial policies as key to preventenvironmental sustainability strategies from reinforcing thegap between Latin America and the global North.ECLAC's vision, however, largely disregards economicsrents in this economic transformation, which it mainlyconceives as a transition to higher value-added activitiesand technological increases in productivity. This appears asa serious blind sport given both the land dispossessionsassociated with renewable energy deployment in LatinAmerica, which have been interpreted as a continuation ofthe region's extractivist model of rent-based development,and the importance that both mainstream and heterodoxliterature on industrial policy bestow on the complexrelationship between development and economic rents.In this context, this project will explore how rent relationsin the renewable energy sector affect the ability of LatinAmerican governments to use green industrial policies topursue a sustainable model of development, using Mexicoand Brazil as case studies