AMBS Event: A multi-level analysis of net-zero transitions Acceleration and new obstacles
| Dates: | 1 May 2024 |
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| Times: | 12:00 - 13:00 |
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| What is it: | Lecture |
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| Organiser: | Alliance Manchester Business School |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, External researchers, Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public |
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At this Original Thinking Lecture, Frank Geels, Eddie Davies Professor of Sustainability Transition, will give his inaugural lecture as Eddie Davies Chair.
Net-zero transitions have entered a new and confusing phase since the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and the gas price crisis.
On the one hand, net-zero transitions are accelerating in electricity and auto-mobility systems, driven by cost reductions and increased deployment of solar-PV, wind turbines, and electric vehicles.
On the other hand, political populism and societal acceptance problems are leading to delays and the weakening of targets in some countries (like the UK).
In this lecture Professor Frank Geels aims to make sense of these contradictory developments, using socio-technical transitions theory and wide-ranging empirical information across emerging niche-innovations, existing systems, and exogenous (‘landscape’) developments.
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Aliiance Manchester Business School
Booth Street West
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