ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the Britain's energy policy and the strategy with the Emerging Powers. British international energy strategies are partly driven by the interests of the extensive private energy sector. A particular emphasis on decarbonization and on renewable energy in political energy dialogues with the emerging economies is therefore not surprising. Without decarbonization technology and innovation unexpectedly becoming far more economically competitive in the short run, domestic incentives risk reliance on government subsidies that face increasingly difficult funding challenges. British energy cooperation with emerging countries is admittedly based on the credibility of its own domestic decarbonization strategies. The British energy cooperation with China includes provision for an ideational and technological platform for energy strategies with carbon reduction. The UK's policy clearly stands on the platform of moral and technological leadership based on normative domestic and foreign strategies. The competing concerns of decarbonization and energy security are a dilemma the UK and emerging countries have in common.
