Abstract
The energy studies on low carbon transition provide valuable insights into the characteristics of socio-technological transitions and the driving factors of appropriate policy intervention. Transition studies have adopted the multilevel perspective framework to inform policymaking and to assess policies for sustainable transitions. Policymakers face challenges in trying to reconcile innovation and sustainability policy objectives. How can the concept of “system transformation” assist policymakers in combining innovation and sustainability goals and building a sustainable innovation policy regime? We reviewed various system transition publications and examined the role that policymakers can play in solving issues arising in the process of shaping system transition to sustainability with the system transformation concept. This paper will provide some determinants of success for niche innovations, regime setting and legitimacy making in a multilevel perspective framework to support policymakers.
Highlights
Since the industrial revolution, the economy’s thirst for energy has never been slaked
Low-carbon transitions to decarbonize the economy are goal-oriented in addressing the problems of climate change are different from historical “emergent” transitions since for historical transition, entrepreneurs are exploiting the commercial opportunities offered by new technology (Geels et al, 2017)
Many obstacles are affecting the effectiveness of policy implementation to facilitate systemic long term low carbon transitions, such as uncertainty about cause-effect relations, dis-centralized control power, ambivalence about goals, political myopia and the danger of carbon lock-in (Kemp et al, 2007)
Summary
The economy’s thirst for energy has never been slaked. The multilevel perspective has absorbed plenty of research interest so far to lead the road to the renewable energy system and a carbon-neutral world (Geels et al, 2017; Geels, 2002; Rip and Kemp, 1998; Smith et al, 2005; Geels et al, 2018) Against this background, we nail to the reasoning on how the “system transformation” informs the policymakers to pack up the effective policy set pursuing the goal of long-term carbon reduction in energy systems. It takes the bond of different actors and their interaction into the policy-making process; all the actors can practice with a concerted goal It helps the social-technology out of lock-in with system thinking and dealing uncertainties of longterm goals in the level of niche development, making a radical technology innovation possible to come into existence. We will spread our backup for each of the three propositions in the three levels of a multilevel perspective
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