Globalizing carbon lock-in

Unruh, Gregory C.; Carrillo‐Hermosilla, Javier

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2004.10.013

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“…The membership of the carbon-importing club is thus comprised of two extremes: the most socio-economically well-off, and the poorest of the poor. The plight of development is particularly acute for these poor countries, which are constrained to import not just energy itself, but also carbon-intensive goods and services from the global market, sometimes relying on large amounts of foreign assistance for this purpose 27 . These countries are thus doubly vulnerable to price increases in fossil fuels.…”

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Pathways of human development and carbon emissions embodied in trade

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Summary [max 150 words]It has long been assumed that energy use is necessary for economic growth, and that economic growth is the prerequisite for human development. Without radical technological improvement, energy use leads to carbon emissions. In this article, we connect new findings to clarify the links between carbon and human development. We analyse the change in trends and correlations between human development indicators and carbon, adjusting carbon emissions for internationally traded goods and services, and examine the diversity in national development trajectories. Adjusting for the transfer of emissions through trade explains many outliers, with socioeconomic benefits accruing to carbon-importing rather than carbonexporting countries. Currently, high life expectancy is compatible with low carbon emissions, but high incomes are not. Despite strong international trends, there is no deterministic industrial development trajectory.

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“…What an un-locking process needs to commence is a sequence of events acting as catalyst for concerns and initiatives (Cowan and Hultén, 1996;Unruh and Carrillo-Hermosilla, 2006). Such concerns and initiatives introduce new ideas, values and narratives that challenge the locked-in order.…”

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Infrastructures, lock-in, and sustainable urban development: the case of waste incineration in the Göteborg Metropolitan Area

Corvellec

Campos

Zapata

2013

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…Technological systems entrapment and carbon lock-in of government policies are sometimes considered as separate and discrete processes [22,23]. Yet, they both describe the same dynamic; the embedded commitment of industrial societies to historical and entrenched energy systems that deter or even eliminate innovation and adoption of new energy systems.…”

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Sustainable fuel, food, fertilizer and ecosystems through a global artificial photosynthetic system: overcoming anticompetitive barriers

Bruce

Faunce

2015

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This article discusses challenges that artificial photosynthetic (AP) systems will face when entering and competing in a global market characterized by established fossil fuel technology. It provides a perspective on the neoliberal principles underpinning much policy entrenching such environmentally destructive technology and outlines how competition law could aid overcoming these hurdles for AP development. In particular, it critiques the potential for competition law to promote a global AP initiative with greater emphasis on atmospheric carbon dioxide and nitrogen fixation (as well as solar-driven water splitting) to produce an equitable, globally distributed source of human food, fertilizer and biosphere sustainability, as well as hydrogen-based fuel. Some relevant strategies of competition law evaluated in this context include greater citizen–consumer involvement in shaping market values, legal requirements to factor services from the natural environment (i.e. provision of clean air, water, soil pollution degradation) into corporate costs, reform of corporate taxation and requirements to balance maximization of shareholder profit with contribution to a nominated public good, a global financial transactions tax, as well as prohibiting horizontal cartels, vertical agreements and unilateral misuse of market power.

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Globalizing carbon lock-in

Cited by 272 publications

References 57 publications

Pathways of human development and carbon emissions embodied in trade

Pathways of human development and carbon emissions embodied in trade

Infrastructures, lock-in, and sustainable urban development: the case of waste incineration in the Göteborg Metropolitan Area

Sustainable fuel, food, fertilizer and ecosystems through a global artificial photosynthetic system: overcoming anticompetitive barriers

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