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Towards Ecomodernity: The Anatomy
of Green Transition
Presentation at Sustainable energy Systems 2050
Stockholm 12 September 2013
by
Professor Atle Midttun
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The Story of Limitlessness
2
The American Story of
Limitlessness
3
The Story of Limits to Growth
4
Two Versions of
Limits to Growth
5
Towards Ecomodernity: A Story
of Transcendence
6
Green Growth in Renewables
7
From Kåberger 2012
Eco-Efficiency
8
Passive houses
Resoruce Recycling
9
Wood Metals
Culture and Experience
Economy
10
GREEN TRANSITION: AN
INNOVATION PERSPECTIVE
11
Marginalistic vs Transformative/innovation
Perspectives
Source: OECD
Source: IEA –
World Energy Outlook 2012
IEA Scenarios
GHG emissions by regions:
1970-2005+
Technology Push: Green Transition
Driven by Big Science
13
Nuclear
NASA - Solar
Geoengineering
CCS
Demand Pull: Green Transition Driven
by Consumption
14
Green
Consu
mption
Green
Niche
markets
Green
Politically
Constructed
markets
The Coupling Model: Green Transition
Driven by Complex Interplay
15
From Rothwell 1994
Bridging Radical and
Incremental Innovation
16
Electric Care Radical or Incremental Innovation?
17
From Geels
20??
The Battle of Modernities
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The system of Innovation Model
Bringing in Public Policy
19
Green Transition and the
Kantian RuleAct only according to that
maxim whereby you can, at
the same time, will that it
should become a universal
law
(Foundations of the Metaphysics
of Morals 1785)
Acutely important in the age
of the Antroposcene
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Greening Policies
Road Map 2050
•By 2050: cut emissions to
80% below 1990 levels
Road Map 2050
•achieve a reduction of
GHG emissions by 80 %
Remix – 100%
renewable electricity is
achievable by 2050
Energiewende…
CO2 emission per unit
of GDP will be 40-45 percent
lower in 2020 than in 2005
Increase the share of renewable
energy in its energy mix to 15
percent by 2020.
Experiments with circular
economies
•Germany, Japan and China are
trying out Circular economies
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22
Electric Technologies in EU 1980-1995
0.01
0.1
1
10
0.01 0.1 1 10 100 1000
Cumulative Electricity Production (TWh)
Co
st
of
Ele
ctr
icity (
EC
U(1
99
0)/
kW
h)
Photovoltaics
Electricity from
Biomass
Supercritical Coal
NGCC
Wind Power - Average
Wind Power - Best
Performance
1985
1995
1980
1995
The Dynamics of
Experience/
Technology
Learning
23
Two IEA Scenarios
Technology Path with Fossil Fuels, Nuclear and Wind
hydroconv.coal
conv.gas
conv.oil
nuclear
adv.coal
ngcc
wind
0
5000
10000
15000
20000
25000
30000
35000
40000
1995 2005 2015 2025 2035 2045
TWh
Total system cost:
9117 billion US$
• Energy projections based on
least cost solutions going
forward
• Scenario made by IEA 1997
• Energy projections based on
least cost solutions going
forward
• Scenario made by IEA 1997
Economics and Politics
50%
El-price
Price necessary
to drive
technology
Price acceptable
to majority
Electoral
Acceptance5%
A Relay Model of Green
Transition
25
TRANSITION ACROSS
CONTIENTAL DIVIDES
26
Green Transition on Three
Continents
27
Unapologetic about
growth
Greening must be
coupled to development
Options for leapfrogging
But poor infrastructure
Rapid growth with eco-
Efficiency focus
Environmental focus
Massive rollout of new
modern capital stock
Taking technological
Frontier posisions in
Many fields
Advanced technological and
Economic capacities
Greening through replacement
Vested interests and zero
sum games
Loose out in volumes to Asia
Technology Migration Across
Lead Markets
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Lead markets &policy contextsI, II, III……..Volume
Time
Product
cycle
Sequential Lead Markets for PV
29
The Global Wind Race
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http://www.chinafaqs.org/library/chinafaqs-renewable-energy-china-graphical-overview-2012
31
The presentation is ased on research from the CERES21 project:
www.CERES21.org
and on
«Towards Ecomodernity. The Anatomy of Green Transition»
Forthcomming on Routledge 2014, co-authored with Nina Witoszek