Never, Babette

Dr. Babette Never

Research programme
Transformation of Economic and Social Systems

Function
Senior Researcher

Specialization
Political Science

Work areas

green economic policy
sustainable consumption
energy efficiency
Circular economy

Vita

since 1/2018	German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) (until 6/2022 German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)) Senior Researcher, Research Programme "Transformation of Economic and Social Systems"
8/2013-12/2017	German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) Researcher, Department "Sustainable Economic and Social Development"
3/2013 - 8/2013	GIGA Institute of African Affairs Researcher
7/2008 - 1/2013	University of Hamburg / GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies Dr. phil., Dissertation: “Knowledge Systems and Change in Climate Governance: Comparing India and South Africa 2007-2010”
9/2009 - 12/2012	Hamburg International Graduate School for the Study of Regional Powers Researcher
1/2008 - 6/2008	Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Internship

Refereed Publications

Malerba, Daniele / Babette Never / Lukas Fesenfeld / Hanna Fuhrmann-Riebel / Sascha Kuhn (2024)
On the acceptance of high carbon taxes in low- and middle-income countries: a conjoint survey experiment
in: Environmental Research Letters, first published online 10.07.2024
Kuhn, Sascha / Richard Opoku / Desmond Diali Diaba / Kofi A. Agyarko / Babette Never (2024)
The transition of Ghana's cooling appliance sector to a circular economy via a small wins governance framework
in: Sustainable Production and Consumption 46, 119-131
Awuni, Evans Tindana / Daniele Malerba / Babette Never (2023)
Understanding vulnerability to poverty, COVID-19’s effects, and implications for social protection: insights from Ghana
in: Progress in Development Studies 23 (3), 246-274
Never, Babette (2022)
Green and social regulation of second hand appliance markets: the case of air conditioners in the Philippines
in: Circular Economy & Sustainability, first published 17.09.2022
Never, Babette / Sascha Kuhn / Hanna Fuhrmann-Riebel / Jose Ramon Albert / Sebastian Gsell / Miguel Jaramillo / Bernardin Senadza (2022)
Energy saving behaviours of middle class households in Ghana, Peru and the Philippines
in: Energy for Sustainable Development (68), 170-181
Never, Babette / Albert, Jose Ramon G. (2021)
Unmasking the middle class in the Philippines: aspirations, lifestyles, and prospects for sustainable consumption
in: Asian Studies Review 45 (4), 594-614
Senadza, Bernardin / Babette Never / Sascha Kuhn / Felix A. Asante (2020)
Profile and determinants of the middle classes in Ghana: energy use and sustainable consumption
in: Journal of Sustainable Development 13 (6), 11-25 (online first)
Kemp, René / Babette Never / Serdar Türkeli (2020)
Fostering sustainable development goals through an integrated approach: phasing in green energy technologies in India and China
in: Ademola A. Adenle / Marian R. Chertow / Ellen Moors / David J. Pannell (Hrsg.), Science, technology and innovation for sustainable development goals: insights from agriculture, health, environment, and energy, New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 108-124
Figueroa, Aurelia Rochelle / Laura de Molière / Anna Pegels / Babette Never / Florian Kutzner (2018)
Show me (more than) the money! Assessing the social and psychological dimensions to energy efficient lighting in Kenya
in: Energy Research & Social Science 47/2019, 224-232
Never, Babette / Katharina Stepping (2018)
Comparing urban wastewater systems in India and Brazil: options for energy efficiency and wastewater reuse
in: Water Policy 20/2018, 1129–1144
Never, Babette / René Kemp (2017)
Developing green technologies and phasing them in
in: Tilman Altenburg / Claudia Assmann (eds.), Green industrial policy: concept, policies, country experiences, Geneva; Bonn: UN Environment; German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), 87-101
Kemp, René / Babette Never (2017)
Green transition, industrial policy, and economic development
in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy 33 (1), 66-84
Never, Babette (2016)
Behave and save? Behaviour, energy efficiency and performance of micro and small enterprises in Uganda
in: Energy Research & Social Science 15/2016, 33-44
Never, Babette (2015)
Social norms, trust and control of power theft in Uganda: does bulk metering work for MSEs?
in: Energy Policy 82/2015, 197-206
Never, Babette (2014)
Comparing the climate policy performance of emerging economies
in: World Development 59 (7), 1-15
Never, Babette (2014)
Knowledge systems and change in climate governance: comparing India and South Africa
London: Routledge
Never, Babette (2013)
Power in global climate governance
in: Oliver Ruppel / Christian Roschmann / Katharina Ruppel-Schlichting (Hrsg.), Climate change: international law and and global governance, Vol.II: Policy, diplomacy and governance in a changing environment, Baden-Baden: Nomos Verl.-Ges., 217-234
Never, Babette (2012)
Who drives change? Comparing the evolution of domestic climate governance in India and South Africa
in: Journal of Environment and Development 21 (3), 362-387
Never, Babette (2010)
Regional power shifts and climate knowledge systems in (global) climate governance
in: Göttingen Journal of International Law 2 (1), 311-334

Non-refereed Publications

Malerba, Daniele / Babette Never / Hanna Fuhrmann-Riebel / Sascha Kuhn (2024)
Survey data on climate policy in three countries (Peru, Ghana, Philippines) within the project "Sustainable Middle Classes in Middle Income Countries: Transforming Carbon Consumption Patterns (SMMICC)"
Bonn: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
Altenburg, Tilmann / Anna Pegels / Mauricio Böhl Gutierrez et al. (2024)
Greening economies in partner countries: priorities for International cooperation
(Policy Brief 2/2024)
Never, Babette / Chiara Anselmetti (2023)
Political participation patterns of the emerging middle classes in Peru and the Philippines
(Discussion Paper 11/2023)
Never, Babette (2023)
Behavioral changes during Asia's net zero transition: evidence from middle-class household consumption
Manila: Asian Development Bank
Altenburg, Tilman / Steffen Bauer / Clara Brandi / Michael Brüntrup / Daniele Malerba / Babette Never / Anna Pegels / Andreas Stamm / Jenny To / Ulrich Volz (2022)
Ökologische Strukturpolitik: ein starker Profilbaustein für die deutsche Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
(Discussion Paper 8/2022)
Never, Babette (2021)
The second hand market for air conditioners in Metro Manila. Business models, resource use, policy options
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
Never, Babette / Jose Ramon Albert / Hanna Fuhrmann / Sebastian Gsell / Miguel Jaramillo / Sascha Kuhn / Bernardin Senadza (2020)
Carbon consumption patterns of emerging middle classes
(Discussion Paper 13/2020)
Hein, Wolfgang / Joachim Betz / Dennis Eucker / Jonas Hein / Lars Holstenkamp / Babette Never (2017)
Klimapolitik und Entwicklung
in: Georg Simonis (Hrsg.), Handbuch Globale Klimapolitik, Paderborn: Schöningh, 397-441
Never, Babette (2016)
Sewage systems and energy: focus on urban India
(Two Pager 2/2016)
Dombrowsky, Ines / Waltina Scheumann / Babette Never (2016)
Governing the nexus between water, energy and food: instruments, incentives and mechanisms
(Two Pager 1/2016)
Never, Babette (2016)
Wastewater systems and energy saving in urban India: governing the Water-Energy-Food Nexus series
(Discussion Paper 12/2016)
Betz, Joachim / Babette Never (2015)
Kontroverse: bringt der UN-Klimagipfel in Paris den Durchbruch für den globalen Klimaschutz?
in: e21 magazin 4/2015, 9
Never, Babette (2015)
Behavioural drivers and barriers to energy efficiency investments of micro, small, and medium enterprises in India
in: Pegels, Anna / Aurelia Figueroa / Babette Never, The human factor in energy efficiency: lessons from developing countries, Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) / Pretoria: National Cleaner Production Centre of South Africa (NCPC-SA), 55-67
Never, Babette (2015)
Energy efficiency management in Ugandan SMEs: assessing the role of behaviour
in: Pegels, Anna / Aurelia Figueroa / Babette Never, The human factor in energy efficiency: lessons from developing countries, Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) / Pretoria: National Cleaner Production Centre of South Africa (NCPC-SA), 25-41
Pegels, Anna / Aurelia Figueroa / Babette Never (2015)
The human factor in energy efficiency: lessons from developing countries
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) / Pretoria: National Cleaner Production Centre of South Africa (NCPC-SA)
Never, Babette (2014)
Making energy efficiency pro-poor: insights from behavioural economics for policy design
(Discussion Paper 11/2014)
Never, Babette (2013)
Green power and performance in global environmental governance
Hamburg: GIGA (GIGA Focus 6/2013)
Never, Babette (2012)
Macht in der globalen Klima-Governance
Hamburg: GIGA (GIGA Focus Global 4/2012)
Never, Babette (2012)
Collective learning through climate knowledge systems: the case of South Africa
in: Politikon - South African Journal of Political Studies 39 (2), 231-256

Opinion Pieces

Never, Babette (2023)
Integrated approaches for a circular economy in German development cooperation
Bonn: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), The Current Column of 13 February 2023
Bauer, Steffen / Babette Never (2022)
Meeting the world’s demand for Wellbeing with less resources
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), The Current Column of 13 June 2022
Never, Babette (2017)
Why it is worth considering consumer trends among the new middle classes
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), The Current Column of 4 December 2017
Never, Babette (2017)
Green economy – Options for sustainable consumption
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) (The Current Column of 24 April 2017)
Betz, Joachim / Babette Never (2015)
Kollektive Selbstblockade? Warum der Pariser Klimagipfel scheitert
published on GIGA Focus 1/2015
Kappel, Robert / Babette Never (2015)
East Africa’s highway to oil
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) (The Current Column of 26 January 2015)
Never, Babette (2014)
Uganda: electricity or tourism?
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) (The Current Column of 7 July 2014)
Never, Babette (2013)
Toward the green economy: assessing countries' green power
Hamburg: GIGA (GIGA Working Paper 226)
Never, Babette (2013)
Green power and performance in global environmental governance
Hamburg: GIGA (GIGA Focus 6/2013)
Never, Babette (2012)
全球气候治理中的权力
Hamburg: GIGA (GIGA Focus International Chinese 3/2012)
Never, Babette (2012)
Macht in der globalen Klima-Governance
Hamburg: GIGA (GIGA Focus Global 4/2012)
Never, Babette (2011)
Integrating energy and climate governance in South Africa: drivers, barriers and the shadow of hierarchy
School of International Development, Univ. of East Anglia (UK Working Paper 013)
Never, Babette (2010)
Regional Power shifts and climate knowledge systems: South Africa as a climate power?
Hamburg: GIGA (GIGA Working Paper 125)
Never, Babette (2010)
Südafrika: Kohle oder Klimaschutz?
Hamburg: GIGA (GIGA Focus Afrika 4/2010)
Never, Babette / Eucker, Dennis (2009)
Der „Obama-Effekt“ auf die Klimapolitik der neuen regionalen Führungsmächte
Hamburg: GIGA (GIGA Focus Global 8/2009)
Stroh, Alexander / Babette Never (2006)
Kaurimuschel statt Chamäleon: dritter demokratischer Präsidentenwechsel in Benin
Hamburg: GIGA (GIGA Focus Afrika 8/2006)

Projects

Contact

E-mail Babette.Never@idos-research.de
Telefon +49 (0)228 94927-238
Fax +49 (0)228 94927-130

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[Translate to English:] Cover: Abschlussbericht zum Forschungsprojekt „Sustainable Middle Classes in Middle Income Countries: Transforming Carbon Consumption Patterns (SMMICC)“

Final Report of the Research Project „Sustainable Middle Classes in Middle Income Countries: Transforming Carbon Consumption Patterns (SMMICC)“ (in German)

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[Translate to English:] Cover: Green and social regulation of second hand appliance markets: the case of air conditioners in the Philippines Never, Babette (2022) in: Circular Economy & Sustainability, first published 17.09.2022

Green and social regulation of second hand appliance markets: the case of air conditioners in the Philippines
Never, Babette (2022)
in: Circular Economy & Sustainability, first published 17.09.2022

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[Translate to English:] Cover: Energy saving behaviours of middle class households in Ghana, Peru and the Philippines Never, Babette / Sascha Kuhn / Hanna Fuhrmann-Riebel / Jose Ramon Albert / Sebastian Gsell / Miguel Jaramillo / Bernardin Senadza (2022) in: Energy for Sustainable Development (68), 170-181

Energy saving behaviours of middle class households in Ghana, Peru and the Philippines
Never, Babette / Sascha Kuhn / Hanna Fuhrmann-Riebel / Jose Ramon Albert / Sebastian Gsell / Miguel Jaramillo / Bernardin Senadza (2022)
in: Energy for Sustainable Development (68), 170-181