Meeting the climate change targets in the Paris Agreement implies a substantial and rapid
acceleration of low-carbon transitions. Combining insights from political science, policy …

The recent debate on the temporal dynamics of energy transitions is crucial since one of the
main reasons for embarking on transitions away from fossil fuels is tackling climate change …

Adopting public policies to deliver the ambitious long-term goals of the Paris Agreement will
require significant societal commitment. That commitment will eventually emerge from the …

This article investigates the conditions under which policymakers are likely to decisively
accelerate socio-technical transitions. We develop a conceptual framework that combines …

Whilst not originating in political analysis, a transitions problem framing nevertheless
provides a heuristic for understanding certain features of climate politics. A multi-level …

Energy transitions face multiple barriers, lock-in, path dependencies and resistance to
change which require strategic policy efforts to be overcome. In this regard, it has been …

Effective mitigation of climate change will require far-reaching transformations of electricity,
heat, agricultural, transport, and other systems. The energy studies and modeling research …

Low-carbon transitions are long-term multi-faceted processes. Although integrated
assessment models have many strengths for analysing such transitions, their mathematical …

Building from two strands of literature within “Sociotechnical agendas: Reviewing future
directions for energy and climate research”, this perspective piece seeks to open a …

This paper provides a survey of policy process theories and their usefulness in transitions
research. Some research has already used such theories, but often in an ad hoc and …