Barriers and Prospects for Action Sample Clauses

Barriers and Prospects for Action. Arguably, a key factor that has been slowing down climate policy is the power of entrenched interests. Transition research has coined the term “socio-technical regime” to describe the currently dominant way of delivering societal needs such as food, housing, mobility etc. The regime is characterised and stabilised by rules that are cognitive (e.g. belief systems, guiding principles, goals, innovation agendas, problem definitions, search heuristics), regulative (e.g. standards, laws) and normative (e.g. values, roles, behavioural norms) and shared by the relevant actors of a regime (governments, companies, civil society, scientists etc.). Crucially, policymakers and incumbent firms often form a core alliance at the regime level, oriented towards maintaining the status quo.65 This mechanism is illustrated for example by the current diesel scandals, where German policymakers are refusing to crack down on German carmakers even though those have fragrantly broken the law. Transitions may take place when there are instabilities on the regime-level, caused by tensions between the regime and its environment or learning and adaptation processes at the regime- level itself. These tensions create windows of opportunity for a niche to become more powerful and to replace the “old” regime. “In the end, transitions are structural regime transformations, in which regime actors will ultimately need to change along with the process or fall out of the system“.66 63 Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxx Xxxxx and Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx, ‘Countries breathe life into the Paris climate agreement’,(Climate Home News, 15 December 2018) <xxxxx://xxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx/2018/12/15/countries-breathe-life-paris-climate- agreement/> accessed 25 March 2019 64 European Commission, ‘COP24: EU and allies in breakthrough agreement to step up ambition’, (European Commission, 12 December 2018) xxxxx://xx.xxxxxx.xx/clima/news/cop24-eu-and-allies-breakthrough-agreement-step-ambition_en 65 Xxxxx X. Xxxxx , ‘Regime resistance against low-carbon transitions: introducing politics and power into the multi-level perspective’ (2014) Theory, Cult. Soc. 31/5 21 66 Xxxx Xxxxxxxx , Transition Management: New Mode of Governance for Sustainable Development, PhD Dissertation, Erasmus University Rotterdam (International Books 2007) 294 Factors that may contribute to destabilising the incumbent regime are for example outside events such as climate change impacts, advances in alternative technologies and practices, or internal tensi...
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