The Politics of Low-Carbon Innovation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics of Low-Carbon Innovation write by Per Ove Eikeland. This book was released on 2019-06-28. The Politics of Low-Carbon Innovation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Although technological innovation is undoubtedly crucial for addressing climate change, low-carbon innovation policies and politics have hardly been studied. This book clearly reveals the promises and pitfalls of European efforts in this field – recommended reading!"—Sebastian Oberthür, Institute for European Studies, Belguim "This compact volume effectively addresses a surprisingly unknown territory in an otherwise well-explored landscape. In doing so, it will provide a useful resource to all who follow the uneven progress of climate and energy policy in the EU context, as well as those who are interested in policies to stimulate technology development more broadly." —Tim Rayner, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia, UK The EU Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET-Plan) was aimed at accelerating low-carbon innovation by raising, coordinating and concentrating resources to certain low-carbon technologies. At the ten-year anniversary of the SET-Plan, this book examines why it was adopted and what it has achieved. Using an analytical framework developed to capture the ‘politics of innovation’, the authors trace the history of the Plan from initiation to implementation, and then explain its development as seen from the perspectives of the EU institutions, member-states, industry, the research community and international technology markets. The concluding chapter discusses lessons and prospects for European low-carbon innovation towards 2030 and beyond. This new work fills a void in the literature on EU climate and energy policies, and will appeal to scholars, students and practitioners in these fields.
How Solar Energy Became Cheap
How Solar Energy Became Cheap - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How Solar Energy Became Cheap write by Gregory F. Nemet. This book was released on 2019-05-20. How Solar Energy Became Cheap available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Solar energy is a substantial global industry, one that has generated trade disputes among superpowers, threatened the solvency of large energy companies, and prompted serious reconsideration of electric utility regulation rooted in the 1930s. One of the biggest payoffs from solar’s success is not the clean inexpensive electricity it can produce, but the lessons it provides for innovation in other technologies needed to address climate change. Despite the large literature on solar, including analyses of increasingly detailed datasets, the question as to how solar became inexpensive and why it took so long still remains unanswered. Drawing on developments in the US, Japan, Germany, Australia, and China, this book provides a truly comprehensive and international explanation for how solar has become inexpensive. Understanding the reasons for solar’s success enables us to take full advantage of solar’s potential. It can also teach us how to support other low-carbon technologies with analogous properties, including small modular nuclear reactors and direct air capture. However, the urgency of addressing climate change means that a key challenge in applying the solar model is in finding ways to speed up innovation. Offering suggestions and policy recommendations for accelerated innovation is another key contribution of this book. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy technology and innovation, climate change and energy analysis and policy, as well as practitioners and policymakers working in the existing and emerging energy industries.
National Pathways to Low Carbon Emission Economies
National Pathways to Low Carbon Emission Economies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook National Pathways to Low Carbon Emission Economies write by Kurt Hübner. This book was released on 2018-09-03. National Pathways to Low Carbon Emission Economies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The science is clear: climate change is a fact and the probability is extremely high that it has been caused by humans. At the same time, policy responses are hesitant, rather lukewarm and differ substantially between nation-states. The question is, what drives and what blocks radical action? This book makes the case that institutional settings, path dependence and emerging change coalitions are critical in explaining climate policies across the global political economy. Technological and social-political innovations are key drivers for dealing with climate change. This class of innovation is very much guided, or suppressed, by a national economy's established institutional settings. By anchoring national case studies in a version of the well established ‘varieties of capitalism’ approach, the chapters of this book show why some economies are policy leaders and others become policy followers, or even policy interlockers. Moreover, the case studies demonstrate the extent to which external events and institutional constraints from the international polity influence national innovation strategies. Taking a unique analytical approach, which combines insights from innovation policies and a variety of capitalism literature, the authors provide genuine comprehension of the interplay between institutional settings, political actors and climate policies. National Pathways to Low Carbon Emission Economies offers a valuable examination of these issues on climate change that will be of interest to academics and postgraduates researching climate policy, economic policy and social movements. Furthermore, it is relevant for policy analysts and policy makers who are interested in learning from climate policies in the context of innovation strategies for a range of countries.
Innovation for a Low Carbon Economy
Innovation for a Low Carbon Economy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Innovation for a Low Carbon Economy write by Tim Foxon. This book was released on 2008-01-01. Innovation for a Low Carbon Economy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Innovation for a Low Carbon Economy analyses the interplay of technological, institutional, market and management factors in the dynamics of energy systems. The book aims to inform national and international policies to promote low carbon innovation.
Green Innovation in China
Green Innovation in China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Green Innovation in China write by Joanna I. Lewis. This book was released on 2013. Green Innovation in China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Just a decade ago, China maintained only a handful of operating wind turbines -- all imported from Europe and the United States.
