Accelerating innovation is as important as climate policy Rapid and deep reductions in greenhouse gas emission are needed to avoid dangerous climate change. This will necessitate low-carbon transitions across electricity, transport, heat, industrial, forestry, and agricultural systems. But despite recent rapid growth in renewable electricity generation, the rate of progress toward this wider goal of deep decarbonization remains slow. Moreover, many policy-oriented energy and climate researchers and models remain wedded to disciplinary approaches that focus on a single piece of the low-carbon transition puzzle, yet avoid many crucial real-world elements for accelerated transitions (1). We present a “sociotechnical” framework to address the multidimensionality of the deep decarbonization challenge and show how coevolutionary interactions between technologies and societal groups can accelerate low-carbon transitions.

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深度脱碳的社会技术转型

加速创新与气候政策同样重要 需要快速、深入地减少温室气体排放以避免危险的气候变化。这将需要电力、运输、供热、工业、林业和农业系统的低碳转型。但是，尽管最近可再生能源发电量快速增长，但实现深度脱碳这一更广泛目标的进展速度仍然缓慢。此外，许多以政策为导向的能源和气候研究人员和模型仍然坚持专注于低碳转型难题的单个部分的学科方法，但避免了许多加速转型的关键现实元素 (1)。