Deep, broad, and rapid society-wide changes are urgently required to limit global temperature rise in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement. Since 2005, academics and policy makers have increasingly referred to such changes as transformations. This recent uptake and rapid diffusion of transformation-related concepts in research on climate change mitigation calls for a systematic and up-to-date analysis. In this article, we address this gap by undertaking a systematic review of articles that use transformation-related terms in the social science literature on climate change mitigation. Drawing on a corpus of 198 articles identified from Scopus, we find a diverse, fragmented research field that strongly focuses on the national, city, and international levels, the energy sector, and high-income countries. Although the use of transformation terminology has increased rapidly, there are few shared definitions, which arguably constitutes a serious challenge to scholarship and evidence-based policy making. To facilitate a more cumulative and impactful approach to research, we propose transformational climate change mitigation as a new umbrella term for the varied mitigation-related societal transformations required to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. We conclude by identifying priorities for future research.

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减缓气候变化的转型：术语、概念和特征的系统回顾

迫切需要深刻、广泛和快速的全社会变革，以根据《巴黎协定》的目标限制全球气温上升。自 2005 年以来，学术界和政策制定者越来越多地将此类变化称为转型. 最近在气候变化减缓研究中对转型相关概念的吸收和快速传播需要进行系统和最新的分析。在本文中，我们通过对社会科学文献中关于减缓气候变化的与转型相关的术语的文章进行系统审查来解决这一差距。利用 Scopus 确定的 198 篇文章的语料库，我们发现了一个多样化、分散的研究领域，重点关注国家、城市和国际层面、能源部门和高收入国家。尽管转换术语的使用迅速增加，但很少有共享定义，这可以说是对学术和基于证据的政策制定的严重挑战。为了促进更具累积性和影响力的研究方法，我们建议将转型气候变化缓解作为实现《巴黎协定》目标所需的各种与缓解相关的社会转型的新总称。我们最后确定了未来研究的优先事项。