Critical choices and the politics of decarbonization pathways: Exploring branching points surrounding low-carbon transitions in Canadian electricity systems

Rosenbloom, Daniel; Haley, Brendan; Meadowcroft, James

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2017.09.022

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“…Finally, the more generic concept of transformative system failures by Weber and Rohracher (2012) are a fruitful starting point for understanding the dynamic (governance) challenges of transitions but do not differentiate between the stages of system development. Particularly useful for dealing with the uncertainty of acceleration is the concept of branching points as it can suggest where/when opportunities for directional governance may be expected and focus attention where reflexivity regarding impacts is most critical (Rosenbloom et al 2018).…”

Section: Do Existing Framework and Policies Suffice?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Challenges Ahead: Understanding, Assessing, Anticipating and Governing Foreseeable Societal Tensions to Support Accelerated Low-Carbon Transitions in Europe

Turnheim

Wesseling

Truffer

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Advancing Energy Policy

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Addressing global climate change calls for rapid, large-scale deployment of renewable energy technologies (RETs). Such an accelerated diffusion constitutes a new phenomenon, which challenges existing analytical approaches. The implied fundamental reconfiguration of energy systems will inevitably involve adjoining shifts in the structure of energy markets, the socio-cultural significance of energy and related rules and institutions-producing new societal tensions that are largely understudied. This chapter draws on insights from socio-technical, B. Turnheim (*) 146 social-ecological and techno-economic systems studies to better understand, assess and support the exploration of low-carbon futures. We sketch out an agenda that encompasses four major tasks for governing the energy transition: i) a richer understanding of the dynamics of sociotechnical and social-ecological systems; ii) multidimensional assessments of prospective environmental, social and economic impacts of these transformations; iii) methods that enable actors to anticipate future impacts in their everyday innovation and decision practices; and iv) elaborate new governance arrangements to tackle the upcoming transformations.

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Section: Do Existing Framework and Policies Suffice?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Challenges Ahead: Understanding, Assessing, Anticipating and Governing Foreseeable Societal Tensions to Support Accelerated Low-Carbon Transitions in Europe

Turnheim

Wesseling

Truffer

et al. 2018

Advancing Energy Policy

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“…The British New Energy Finance Company predicts that the global carbon trading market will reach 3.5 trillion dollars in 2020 and is expected to become the largest market in the world surpassing the oil market. There are two relatively representative types of carbon emissions trading [4].…”

Section: Trade Of Carbon Emissionsmentioning

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“…However, the credits can only be the Certified Emission Reductions (CERs) or the Emission Reduction Units (ERUs) obtained through CDM or JI under the Kyoto Protocol [4] [7].…”

Section: Eu Greenhouse Gas Emission Trading Scheme: Cap-and-tradementioning

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International Experiences in the Development of Green Finance

Peng¹,

Feng²,

Zhou³

2018

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Green finance is rapidly developing around the world in recent years and has become a new means of environmental governance. The development of green finance in China is particularly flat and the improvement of market mechanisms becomes the key to it. After analyzing the trading markets of many developed countries, this paper gives corresponding suggestions for China's development of green finance.

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“…Temporality, however, not only relates to general phases but also the specific dynamics that shape transitions. Indeed, transitions are defined by sequences of choices and system interactions along with the sedimentation of outcomes (Foxon et al, 2013;Rosenbloom et al, 2018a). And so, different directions of change may unfold based on the timing and nature of these system interactions (Geels and Schot, 2007).…”

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“…Foxon, 2013;Geels et al, 2016a;Turnheim et al, 2015). From this, transitions studies have shown that transition pathways: are not comprised of one dominant pattern (e.g., niche-driven change) but rather involve a plurality of possibilities and cascading interactions that can manifest in vastly different directions of change (Geels and Schot, 2007;Smith et al, 2005); are deeply temporal as they involve sequences of choices (around institutional and technological arrangements, in particular) and consequences over many rounds of action that branch in different directions (Foxon et al, 2013;Rosenbloom et al, 2018a); and, embody processes of both continuity and discontinuity -they exhibit path dependent features but also allow for path creation opportunities (Geels et al, 2016b). Pathways, in this view, concern "decision making at critical points" (Foxon et al, 2013, p. 156) and "event-chains and rounds of moves and counter-moves" (Geels et al, 2016b, p. 898), particularly with respect to key sites of contestation (e.g., institutional and infrastructural commitments around climate and energy).…”

Section: Transition Studiesmentioning

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The Politics of Decarbonization Pathways: Responses, Conflicts, and the Transition to a Low-Carbon Energy Future

Rosenbloom¹

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This thesis explores the politics of decarbonization pathways, with a particular focus on the responses to and conflicts surrounding the transition to a low-carbon energy future. As part of this, the dissertation: (1) scrutinizes how the concept of "pathways" is understood within climateenergy policy and analysis; and (2) attends to the struggles involved in pursuing potential pathways to carbon-neutral energy systems. Two overarching and interrelated research questions orient this work. First, how are pathways understood in the context of the low-carbon transition? And second, how are the socio-technical responses that help make up these pathways contested and shaped through politics? The introductory chapter of this thesis lays the groundwork for interrogating these questions, providing background on the subject of climate change, outlining the role of energy in this challenge, raising issues around the governance of low-carbon transitions, identifying research aims and questions, and discussing relevant research perspectives and approaches. Drawing on transition and discursive perspectives, chapters 2 through 4 then present three studies that take up Chapter 2-Pathways: an emerging concept for the theory and governance of low-carbon transitions

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Critical choices and the politics of decarbonization pathways: Exploring branching points surrounding low-carbon transitions in Canadian electricity systems

Cited by 64 publications

References 40 publications

Challenges Ahead: Understanding, Assessing, Anticipating and Governing Foreseeable Societal Tensions to Support Accelerated Low-Carbon Transitions in Europe

Challenges Ahead: Understanding, Assessing, Anticipating and Governing Foreseeable Societal Tensions to Support Accelerated Low-Carbon Transitions in Europe

International Experiences in the Development of Green Finance

The Politics of Decarbonization Pathways: Responses, Conflicts, and the Transition to a Low-Carbon Energy Future

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