A shift in international climate policy discourse toward a new shared narrative on the need
for a 'transition'to a low-carbon society and green economy is outlined and assessed in …

The UK is moving into a new phase of energy governance which is characterised by
significant demand for new investment to meet long term climate policy objectives and to …

Decarbonizing industry represents a critical challenge, requiring massive technology up-
scaling, accelerated investment, and substantial science-supported policy changes. Such …

Highlights•Socio-technical transitions research is a distinctive approach within the
sustainability transformations debate.•Socio-technical transitions involve multi-dimensional …

Addressing persistent environmental problems such as climate change or biodiversity loss
requires shifts to new kinds of energy, mobility, housing, and agro-food systems. These shifts …

The need to rapidly decarbonise energy systems is widely accepted, yet there is growing
criticism of 'top–down', technocentric transition visions. Transitions are, such critics claim …

This paper seeks to uncover and examine the complex set of governance challenges
associated with transforming energy distribution networks, which play a key enabling role in …

To break away from techno-institutional lock-in in climate change and in other sustainability
problems, many have focused on innovation in technological 'niches'. The destabilisation of …

Sustainability transitions is an emerging field of research that has produced both conceptual
understandings of the drivers of technological transitions, as well as more prescriptive and …

Energy systems around the globe face multiple, major pressures to transform into more
sustainable ones. Over the past decades numerous, potentially sustainable energy …