Daniel Rosenbloom, a SSHRC post-doctoral researcher at the EGL, and Jochen Markard (ETH Zurich) presented their research on the challenges facing carbon pricing. Rosenbloom and Markard began by outlining the principal weaknesses of this dominant climate policy approach with respect to: problem framing and solution orientation, policy priorities, assumptions about innovation, contextual considerations, and politics. From this, they elaborated an alternative climate policy approach based on sustainability transition perspectives. This alternative would target fundamental shifts in socio-technical regimes by more actively promoting the emergence of low-carbon innovations and the decline of carbon-intensive arrangements. To confront the climate crisis, they argued that greater efforts will be required to erode carbon lock-ins while also scaling up the low-carbon systems of the future.

This work has now been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

Learn more about Daniel’s work:

Daniel Rosenbloom and Jochen Markard. 2020. A COVID-19 recovery for climate. Science. DOI: 10.1126/science.abc4887.

Daniel Rosenbloom, Jochen Markard, Frank W. Geels, and Lea Fuenfschilling. 2020. Opinion: Why carbon pricing is not sufficient to mitigate climate change—and how “sustainability transition policy” can help. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2004093117.