#  Energy Policy Seminar 

 



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 **September 20, 2021** 

 12:00PM - 01:00PM EDT 

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 **Zoom**  



 

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 **Frank Geels,** Professor of System Innovation and Sustainability, University of Manchester, will present “Understanding and Shaping the Dynamics of Low-Carbon Transitions.”

 **Frank Geels,** Professor of System Innovation and Sustainability, University of Manchester, will present “Understanding and Shaping the Dynamics of Low-Carbon Transitions.”

 While modelling approaches usefully analyze on techno-economic dynamics, this seminar is about the socio-technical dynamics of low-carbon transitions, focusing on actors and social interactions in relation to technological innovation and diffusion. Prof. Geels will synthesize insights from innovation studies, political science, and history of technology into a ‘big picture’ Multi-Level Perspective, conceptualizing transitions as involving struggles between radical niche-innovations and entrenched socio-technical systems. These struggles vary across different transition phases: emergence, diffusion, and reconfiguration. Prof. Geels will discuss and illustrate the different phases and draw out policy implications for deep decarbonization. HKS Professor **William Clark** will moderate the discussion and Q&A.

 [Register](https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5R4XZc1tT8SgQ1KJRdjAcw) in advance. For more information, visit [the event page](https://www.belfercenter.org/event/energy-policy-seminar-frank-geels-understanding-and-shaping-dynamics-low-carbon-transitions).

 Contact: [amanda\_sardonis@harvard.edu](mailto:amanda_sardonis@harvard.edu)



 

 



 

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- [ Energy ](/research-areas/energy)
- [ Harvard Kennedy School ](/school/harvard-kennedy-school)
 
 

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