ABSTRACT

Ecological modernisation tends to dominate institutional definitions of low-carbon transitions in industrialised countries. While most works study the market solutions and the technological innovation constraints of Eco-Modernist (EM) projects, this article analyses them at a micro level through the study of the development of an EM coalition supporting industrial Carbon Capture, Utilisation, and Storage (CCUS) in France. Drawing on interpretive policy analysis and the sociology of innovation, and focusing on the building and erosion of a common frame within the coalition, we highlight the ambivalence of the framing of the solution and the instability of the coalition supporting it. First, we show that, like most EM innovations, almost all CCUS projects in France have been co-constructed between public and private actors. Second, we argue that the ambivalent frames developed by French promoters of CCUS initially legitimated the deployment of the CCUS technologies but led to a misalignment of actors in the long term. We conclude by encouraging scholars in more micro-observation of EM coalitions in order to gain a better understanding of their internal conflicts and of their heterogeneity, and to document the general, now dominant, discourse of EM in the field of environmental policies.

摘要

生态现代化往往主导工业化国家低碳转型的制度定义。虽然大多数作品研究生态现代主义 (EM) 项目的市场解决方案和技术创新约束，但本文通过研究支持工业碳捕获、利用和封存 (CCUS) 的 EM 联盟的发展，在微观层面上对其进行了分析） 在法国。借鉴解释性政策分析和创新社会学，并重点关注联盟内部共同框架的建立和侵蚀，我们强调了解决方案框架的矛盾性以及支持该解决方案的联盟的不稳定性。首先，我们表明，与大多数新兴市场创新一样，法国几乎所有 CCUS 项目都是公共和私人参与者共同建设的。第二，我们认为，法国 CCUS 推动者制定的矛盾框架最初使 CCUS 技术的部署合法化，但从长远来看导致了参与者的错位。最后，我们鼓励学者对新兴市场联盟进行更多的微观观察，以便更好地理解它们的内部冲突和异质性，并记录新兴市场在环境政策领域目前占主导地位的一般话语。