Understanding carbon lock-in. Unruh, G. C. Energy Policy, 28(12):817–830, October, 2000. ![Understanding carbon lock-in [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper doi abstract bibtex This paper narrative argues that industrial economies have been locked into fossil fuel-based energy systems through a process of technological and institutional co-evolution driven by path-dependent increasing returns to scale. It is asserted that this condition, termed carbon lock-in, creates persistent market and policy failures that can inhibit the diffusion of carbon-saving technologies despite their apparent environmental and economic advantages. The notion of a Techno-Institutional Complex is introduced to capture the idea that lock-in occurs through combined interactions among technological systems and governing institutions. While carbon lock-in provides a conceptual basis for understanding macro-level barriers to the diffusion of carbon-saving technologies, it also generates questions for standard economic modeling approaches that abstract away technological and institutional evolution in their elaboration. The question of escaping carbon lock-in is left for a future paper.
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title = {Understanding carbon lock-in},
volume = {28},
issn = {0301-4215},
url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V2W-40T9HJ3-1/2/8ff1f7385f1fef1c62be6851af59746e},
doi = {doi: DOI: 10.1016/S0301-4215(00)00070-7},
abstract = {This paper narrative argues that industrial economies have been locked into fossil fuel-based energy systems through a process of technological and institutional co-evolution driven by path-dependent increasing returns to scale. It is asserted that this condition, termed carbon lock-in, creates persistent market and policy failures that can inhibit the diffusion of carbon-saving technologies despite their apparent environmental and economic advantages. The notion of a Techno-Institutional Complex is introduced to capture the idea that lock-in occurs through combined interactions among technological systems and governing institutions. While carbon lock-in provides a conceptual basis for understanding macro-level barriers to the diffusion of carbon-saving technologies, it also generates questions for standard economic modeling approaches that abstract away technological and institutional evolution in their elaboration. The question of escaping carbon lock-in is left for a future paper.},
number = {12},
journal = {Energy Policy},
author = {Unruh, Gregory C.},
month = oct,
year = {2000},
keywords = {collapse, lock-in},
pages = {817--830},
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