Understanding carbon lock-in

By Gregory C. Unruh. 2000

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management Science and Operations Research, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Policy and institutional dimensions of the water–energy nexus (2011, background): “Institutional inertia in both the energy and water sectors can effectively lock out competing and more efficient options (Unruh, 2000).”
Are regional systems greening the economy? Local spillovers, green innovations and firms’ economic performances (2016, background): “On the relation between technological changes, lock-in and sustainable growth see also, among others, Unruh (2000, 2002) and Unruh and Carrillo-Hermosilla (2006).”
Mitigation from a cross-sectoral perspective (2007, neutral): “Concerns have been expressed that measures that improve the local environmental performance of coal in electricity generation might result in a lock-in of coal technologies that will make it more difficult to mitigate CO2 emissions (McDonald, 1999; Unruh, 2000).”
Insights from the Fostering of Innovation Ideas (2007, background): “These processes may lead to ‘lock-ins’ to existing production and social systems (Jacobsson & Johnson, 2000; Unruh, 2000; 2002).”
Climate policy modeling: An online SCI-E and SSCI based literature review (2015, neutral): “8 Unruh [42] 2000 Energy Policy 389 25.93 Spain 9 Duarte [43] 2002 Environmental Conservation 363 27.92 Spain 10 Held and Soden [44] 2000 Annual Review of Energy and the Environment 362 24.13 USA Note: This table is adapted from [30].”
Circular Economy: Measuring Innovation in the Product Chain (2017, positive): “The biggest obstacle to CE transition is socio-institutional lock-in (Unruh, 2000) in existing ways of consuming, producing and doing business.”
Co-benefits of climate policy—lessons learned from a study in Shanxi, China (2004, background): “Concern has been voiced that measures that improve the performance of coal in energy generation constitute a cul-de-sac, contributing to a lock-in of coal technologies (McDonald, 1999; Unruh, 2000).”
The uniqueness of the energy security, justice, and governance problem☆ (2012, result): “On similar accounts, some observers point to a ‘‘carbon lock-in’’ of industrial economies arising from a long term systemic interaction and positive feedback loops between fossil fuel-based energy and transportation systems and the societal and economic actors creating and using them (Unruh, 2000).”
Transformations of Large Technical Systems (2007, background): “Industries may create professional associations or branch organizations to do political lobbying on their behalf (Unruh 2000).”
Coal, Climate Justice, and the Cultural Politics of Energy Transition (2019, background): “However, this approach neglects the lock-in effect and path dependency guaranteed by new high-carbon infrastructure (Unruh 2000).”
Drivers and barriers of eco-innovation types for sustainable transitions: A quantitative perspective (2018, background): “Yet their past trajectories frequently act as barriers to more radical and systemic EIs as a result of lock‐in in past success (Unruh, 2000).”