TY - JOUR
T1 - Three Decades of Climate Mitigation
T2 - Why Haven't We Bent the Global Emissions Curve?
AU - Stoddard, Isak
AU - Anderson, Kevin
AU - Capstick, Stuart
AU - Carton, Wim
AU - Depledge, Joanna
AU - Facer, Keri
AU - Gough, Clair
AU - Hache, Frederic
AU - Hoolohan, Claire
AU - Hultman, Martin
AU - Hällström, Niclas
AU - Kartha, Sivan
AU - Klinsky, Sonja
AU - Kuchler, Magdalena
AU - Lövbrand, Eva
AU - Nasiritousi, Naghmeh
AU - Newell, Peter
AU - Peters, Glen P.
AU - Sokona, Youba
AU - Stirling, Andy
AU - Stilwell, Matthew
AU - Spash, Clive L.
AU - Williams, Mariama
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Despite three decades of political efforts and a wealth of research on the causes and catastrophic impacts of climate change, global carbon dioxide emissions have continued to rise and are 60% higher today than they were in 1990. Exploring this rise through nine thematic lenses-covering issues of climate governance, the fossil fuel industry, geopolitics, economics, mitigation modeling, energy systems, inequity, lifestyles, and social imaginaries-draws out multifaceted reasons for our collective failure to bend the global emissions curve. However, a common thread that emerges across the reviewed literature is the central role of power, manifest in many forms, from a dogmatic political-economic hegemony and influential vested interests to narrow techno-economic mindsets and ideologies of control. Synthesizing the various impediments to mitigation reveals how delivering on the commitments enshrined in the Paris Agreement now requires an urgent and unprecedented transformation away from today's carbon- and energy-intensive development paradigm.
AB - Despite three decades of political efforts and a wealth of research on the causes and catastrophic impacts of climate change, global carbon dioxide emissions have continued to rise and are 60% higher today than they were in 1990. Exploring this rise through nine thematic lenses-covering issues of climate governance, the fossil fuel industry, geopolitics, economics, mitigation modeling, energy systems, inequity, lifestyles, and social imaginaries-draws out multifaceted reasons for our collective failure to bend the global emissions curve. However, a common thread that emerges across the reviewed literature is the central role of power, manifest in many forms, from a dogmatic political-economic hegemony and influential vested interests to narrow techno-economic mindsets and ideologies of control. Synthesizing the various impediments to mitigation reveals how delivering on the commitments enshrined in the Paris Agreement now requires an urgent and unprecedented transformation away from today's carbon- and energy-intensive development paradigm.
KW - climate mitigation
KW - energy transitions
KW - knowledge traditions
KW - lock-ins
KW - power
KW - societal transformations
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U2 - 10.1146/annurev-environ-012220-011104
DO - 10.1146/annurev-environ-012220-011104
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85110184812
SN - 1543-5938
VL - 46
SP - 653
EP - 689
JO - Annual Review of Environment and Resources
JF - Annual Review of Environment and Resources
ER -