Escaping carbon lock-in

By Gregory C. Unruh. 2002

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Models in evolutionary economics and environmental policy: Towards an evolutionary environmental economics (2009, background): “In the last fifteen years or so, we witness an increasing number of contributions in environmental economics adopting an evolutionary perspective, including conceptual frameworks [3-7], empirical studies [8-12] and policy-oriented discussions [13-16].”
Undesired reinforcement of harmful ‘self-evident truths’ concerning the implementation of wind power (2012, background): “Analysis and change of institutions is crucial in overcoming deadlocks in the development of new systems, known as ‘institutional lock-in’ in innovation theory (Unruh, 2002; Lehmann et al., 2012).”
Renewable energy and geopolitics: A review (2020, background): “mestic political, economic and social institutions create a carbon lock-in situation that can result in resistance to institutional change by fossil fuel players (Unruh [129,130]).”
The (non-)politics of managing low carbon socio-technical transitions (2009, background): “Furthermore, given the large-scale, long-lived infrastructure and intense political commitments attending nuclear power, TM would caution against expanding its use because of concerns over technological ‘lock-in’ (Unruh 2002) and institutional ‘entrapment’ (Walker 2000).”
Functions in innovation systems: A framework for analysing energy system dynamics and identifying goals for system-building activities by entrepreneurs and policy makers (2008, background): “…TIS, it is particularly vital to identify blocking mechanisms, i.e. factors that provide obstacles to the development of powerful functions and, therefore tilt the selection environment in favour of incumbent technologies, and the dominant regime (cf. Johnson and Jacobsson, 2001; Unruh, 2002).”
Mitigation from a cross-sectoral perspective (2007, positive): “Drawing partly on more sociological literature, and the systems innovation literature (Unruh, 2002), tends to support a view that we are now ‘locked in’ to carbonintensive systems, with profound implications: ‘Carbon lock-in arises through technological, organizational, social and institutional co-e”
Evolutionary approaches for sustainable innovation policies: From niche to paradigm? (2009, background): “This means that policy needs opportunities for action to overcome opposition from established actors who stand to lose from such policies (see e.g. Unruh, 2002) but also to phase out policy support when such support is viewed no longer desirable.”
Regional innovation policies for new path development – beyond neo-liberal and traditional systemic views (2018, background): “technologies and infrastructure over time) (Unruh, 2002).”
Emerging in between: The multi-level governance of renewable energy in the English regions (2007, background): “Policy objectives for transforming existing energy systems into ones with greater renewable energy content require co-ordinated efforts and changes among many different actors, institutions and artefacts (Unruh, 2002; Elzen et al., 2004; Smith et al., 2005).”
Explaining the failure of the Dutch innovation system for biomass digestion : A functional analysis (2007, background): “The underlying theory of this paper focuses on the ‘lockin’ of established systems and the difficulty that firms encounter when they want to develop a new technology and bring it to the market ( Unruh, 2000, 2002 ).”
Intersectionality and energy transitions: A review of gender, social equity and low-carbon energy (2020, background): “Some of these streams explore the socio-technical challenge of transitioning whole energy systems towards sustainability [4,5] by confronting incumbent energy policies [6,7], diffusing new low-carbon – or renewable – energy technologies [8,9], establishing new value chains and business models [10,11”
Scientific research about climate change mitigation in transport: a critical review (2011, background): “Also, in the margins of mainstream transport studies, authors have argued that transport policy can become locked into a state of high carbon use and have explored how such lock-in can be overcome through radical transitions (Unruh, 2002; Nykvist and Whitmarsh, 2008; Kemp et al., 2011).”