Cleantech deployment and public policy: understanding the system from the bottom up

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Speaker: Cale Reeves, Research Associate, C-EENRG

Deploying clean technologies at the pace required by the climate crisis requires understanding the complex system connecting individual adopters, local utilities, and federal policymakers. Using polycentric governance as an organising principle, this talk traces cleantech deployment from household-level decision-making up through co-ordinated local and national-level policy interventions, revealing how financial rebates, information networks, and social norms interact to drive technology adoption. It aims to link nonlinear dynamics, frustrated demand and inequitable outcomes revealed by bottom-up analyses to high level national and international public policy initiatives to spur deployment.

The weekly climaTRACES workshops, organised by Kamiar Mohaddes and Henning Zschietzschmann, are attended by a diverse group of people from economics, geography, politics, engineering, business, earth sciences, natural sciences, and history generating interdisciplinary discussion. One person leads the session, on either a paper they have written, a work in progress, or just an idea they have and would like feedback on. This is also an opportunity for people to find our more about the team on what climaTRACES have been up to and what future events and research projects are being developed.

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No registration required. If you have any questions about this seminar, please email Henning Zschietzshmann.