The impact of the financial-economic crisis on sustainability transitions: Financial investment, governance and public discourse

By Frank W. Geels. 2013

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

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Developmental States and Sustainability Transitions: Prospects of a Just Transition in South Africa (2016, background): “Since the onset of the global economic crisis in 2007/2008, two key trends have been discussed in the policy and academic communities: the rise of the socalled ‘BRICS-plus’ economies as most of the traditional OECD economies plunged into a prolonged depressive malaise (Bogdan, Hurduzeu, Josan, & Vla”
Providing decent living with minimum energy: A global scenario (2020, background): “Global energy use has thus risen consistently (GEA, 2012), with the exception of financial crises – whose effects soon wear off (Geels, 2013) – and global pandemics (Le Quéré et al., 2020) – the long-term impacts of which are yet to be seen.”
Historical institutionalism and the politics of sustainable energy transitions: A research agenda (2017, background): “STS studies have started to pay some attention to trends in public opinion (e.g. Geels 2013).”
Three is a crowd? Exploring the potential of crowdfunding for renewable energy in the Netherlands (2016, background): “both governmental funding as well as bank investments decreased, with a resulting gap between supply and demand of financial resources for renewable energy projects in different national settings (Creutzig et al., 2014; Eleftheriadis and Anagnostopoulou, 2015; Geels, 2013; Luthra et al., 2015; Suzuk”
Public opinion and environmental policy output: a cross-national analysis of energy policies in Europe (2017, background): “Likewise, other scholars identified a lack of public support as a major barrier to transitioning to a low-carbon economy (Geels 2013, Wiseman et al 2013).”
Islamic Banking Sustainability: A Review of Literature and Directions for Future Research (2016, background): “Thereafter, different studies had been related to sustainability such as third world standard of living (Barbier 1987); sustainable transitions (Geels 2011, 2013; Markard, Raven, and Truffer 2012); global sustainability (Brown et al. 1987); economic analysis (Pezzey 1992); sustainability of…”
What explains public support for climate policies? A review of empirical and experimental studies (2016, background): “Others have identified the lack of broad public support as a major barrier to realizing a transition to a low-carbon economy (Geels, 2013; Wiseman, Edwards, & Luckins, 2013).”
Beyond market failures: the market creating and shaping roles of state investment banks (2016, unknown): “investments that have been made in this area have diminished since the financial crisis of 2007 (FS-UNEP/BNEF, 2013; Geels, 2013).”
Economic Growth and Climate Change: A Cross-National Analysis of Territorial and Consumption-Based Carbon Emissions in High-Income Countries (2014, background): “For discussions of the impact of the 2009 recession and subsequent stimulus spending on the transition to renewable energy see Geels [17] and Schor [18].”
Low‐carbon transition risks for finance (2020, background): “…direction of causation, how the recent financial crisis has either slowed the progress of the green transition (Falcone, Morone, & Sica, 2018; Geels, 2013) or accelerated it through subsequently low interest rates that lowered the costs of capital intensive low-carbon power generation…”
COVID-19 Drives Consumer Behaviour and Agro-Food Markets towards Healthier and More Sustainable Patterns (2020, background): “It may, therefore, weaken public and individual attention on environmental and sustainability issues [24].”
The sharing economy: : A pathway to sustainability or a nightmarish form of neoliberal capitalism? (2016, background): “However, given the malleability of digital technologies discussed above, I suggest that such expectations should be moderated (Viitanen and Kingston, 2014); giving further cause for concern that we are not taking the action needed to transition to sustainability (Geels, 2013).”
A socio-technical perspective on low carbon investment challenges – Insights for UK energy policy (2015, background): “Although questions of finance and investment have not been an explicit focus of this field of research to date, though see (Geels, 2013), there has been some engagement with the issue, for example with a recent special issue of this journal focusing on the implications of the economic-financial…”
Three green financial policies to address climate risks (2021, background): “However, this might not happen because of lack of adequate information, need of patient capital, technological uncertainty and pathdependent investment behavior (Geels, 2013; Mazzucato and Semieniuk, 2018; Lamperti et al., 2019).”