Welcome

National governments have committed themselves to ambitious climate policies. These imply substantial shifts away from fossil energy regimes and support of low-carbon electricity technologies. Yet as more and more political attention and public resources are committed to low-carbon transitions, so a growing variety of technology advocates will lobby for those resources and try and realise their interests in a lower-carbon way.

This website will communicate our efforts to investigate how these ‘protective spaces’ for low-carbon innovation are socially constructed. The research is a jointly funded project by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).