Protect global supply chains for low-carbon technologies

Goldthau, Andreas; Hughes, Llewelyn

doi:10.1038/d41586-020-02499-8

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“…The pandemic, for example, affected global supply chains of low-carbon energy as closed borders lead to shortages of components with the effect of less production of wind turbines, solar panels, electric vehicles, etc. (Goldthau and Hughes, 2020).…”

Section: Transforming For Sustainable Futures: Structural Transition Beyond Degrowthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainability learnings from the COVID-19 crisis. Opportunities for resilient industry and business development

Schaltegger

2020

SAMPJ

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify sustainability learnings from origins of epidemics such as COVID-19 and deduct conclusions for businesses to create sustainable futures in three industries, which are strongly affected by Covid-19. Two main questions guide the discussion: How can we break the paths of viral epidemics through accounting for sustainability issues in the supply chain? How can we learn from sustainable supply chain failures to transform industries for sustainable futures? Design/methodology/approach This viewpoint provides a conceptual discussion of opportunities and the necessity to develop resilient businesses for three indsutries, which have been particularly affected by the Covid-19 crises. Findings To defeat future pandemics, three paths how epidemics develop need to be broken in order to create sustainable development structural transitions beyond degrowth are needed. Practical implications The practical implications for this paper are the learnings for management to develop more resilient businesses. Social implications By breaking the three paths of pandemic development and by contributing to sustainable futures of sectors, the likelihood of future pandemics can be reduced. Originality/value By considering origins and the past of pandemics and with sustainability transformations of businesses, contributions can be made for more sustainable futures of industries.

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Section: Transforming For Sustainable Futures: Structural Transition Beyond Degrowthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainability learnings from the COVID-19 crisis. Opportunities for resilient industry and business development

Schaltegger

2020

SAMPJ

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“…One often invoked precedent is China's 2008 decision to restrict the sale of REEs to foreign buyers, which led to widespread panic and price hikes (Raman, 2013). In order to help manage the potential risks, research has also formulated policy recommendations to secure low‐carbon supply chains (Goldthau & Hughes, 2020; Sovacool, Ali, et al., 2020).…”

Section: The Challenges Of Low‐carbon Energy Transitionsmentioning

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The geopolitics of energy system transformation: A review

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“…As we have seen, financialization and fossil fuel reliance are themselves formidable examples of the latter. The reorganization of energy markets along more granular, local and varied scales (Kuzemko, 2019), such as via participatory multi-modelling (Cuppen et al., 2020), while at the same time strengthening global access to RE technologies (Goldthau and Hughes, 2020) may be a means of addressing the former.…”

Section: Conclusion: Can Re Markets Bridge Fossil Fuels’ Rifts?mentioning

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Reconceptualizing contemporary energy markets

Lawrence

2021

Competition & Change

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This article provides a conjunctural synopsis of both empirical trends and new approaches to analytically and normatively assessing energy markets. The preceding eras of coal and oil entailed not only differing technologies but also historically distinct political geographies, modes of production, and characteristic commodities and systems of value. They also coincided with and helped reinforce several misleading assumptions: of ‘pure’, ‘stateless’ energy markets; of scarcity as a defining feature of all economies; of unlimited growth and of market equilibrium. These assumptions tended to reinforce established approaches to energy markets that were insufficiently historically grounded, abstracted from social, political and ecological relations, and – with particular reference to oil – premised on zero-sum geostrategic calculations of interest. They are inadequate to, or misleading about, fossil fuel markets, and do not adequately address such recent phenomena as unprecedented levels of financialization of the global economy with an unprecedented intensity of ecological crisis entailing, most prominently, global warming. These factors undermine the prior assumptions in several respects: it is not scarcity, but rather abundance of greenhouse gas emissions that is of paramount concern; this in turn necessarily implies that unlimited growth is neither possible nor desirable; and furthermore, that ecological degradation has fundamentally displaced the analytical plausibility of market equilibrium, no less than its normative appeal. An exercise in reconceptualizing energy markets is therefore one that should explore not only what was misperceived and what has changed but also what needs to change in order to restore economic, political and ecological sustainability.

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Protect global supply chains for low-carbon technologies

Cited by 80 publications

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Sustainability learnings from the COVID-19 crisis. Opportunities for resilient industry and business development

Sustainability learnings from the COVID-19 crisis. Opportunities for resilient industry and business development

The geopolitics of energy system transformation: A review

Reconceptualizing contemporary energy markets

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