Highlights from the book launch by Nora Blascsok In April 2016, the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) and the Centre on Innovation and Energy Demand (CIED) hosted a workshop titled “Beyond experiments: Understanding how climate governance innovations become embedded”. The workshop, which I helped organise, was funded by EU COST (specifically, the 4-year COST Action …
Tag: Innovation
Book Launch: Innovating Climate Governance
The launch of ‘Innovating Climate Governance: Moving Beyond Experiments’ co-edited by Bruno Turnheim (King’s College London), Paula Kivimaa (University of Sussex) and Frans Berkhout (King’s College London).
We must support the transition to low carbon by phasing out high carbon
This post is by Jenny Bird, Dr Florian Kern, Dr Paula Kivimaa and Dr Karoline Rogge from the Centre on Innovation and Energy Demand and was first published on the Green Alliance blog. Prior to the era of Donald Trump, tweeting was an unusual way to make a government announcement. But a tweet from the …
Learning about diffusion from experiences in other countries
European countries have seen some low-energy innovations, like district energy systems in Austria, gain popularity. What lessons can be learned from these examples about how to overcome inertia and cause diffusions to accelerate, leading to tipping points and breakthroughs?