Learning from government-led transformations (Jordan & Xxxxxxxxx) Sample Clauses

Learning from government-led transformations (Jordan & Xxxxxxxxx). There is broad agreement that the far- reaching transformations needed to fully decarbonise society have to be accelerated by public policy interventions55, chiefly adopted by central and sub-central governments. However, these public policy processes are often ‘black-boxed’56 by scholars of transitions, leading to a partial understanding of the extent to which public policy enables andlor hinders change. Project 2.1 will address this gap in the literature by exploring why interventions to achieve emissions reduction have been successful in some sectors, while others remain seemingly intractable (e.g., transport) or barely even acknowledged (e.g., reducing meat consumption). It will examine how far and why certain policy packages of interventions, including regulation, market-based instruments, and behaviour change (or ‘nudge’) initiatives, have resulted in change, and the forms that these governing activities took. Concurrently, it will examine why in other sectors change has been limited or even curtailed, either because of weak policy steering or in relation to coalitions favouring the status quo. We will focus on: (a) a sector that has achieved significant emissions reductions (electricity supply in the UK5), examining the extent to which public policy played a role in the sector’s emissions reductions, how and why it was able to do so; in conjunction with (b) the challenging areas that require