Lecture | Lunch Research Seminar
Growth Models, Carbon Pathways, and the Geopolitics of the Green Transition
- Date
- Tuesday 11 November 2025
- Time
- Address
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Lipsius
Cleveringaplaats 1
2311 BD Leiden - Room
- 2.24
Registration
All are welcome, however please register in advance at l-peg@hum.leidenuniv.nl to receive a copy of the paper and lunch.
Abstract
The world is in the midst of a full-scale energy-system transformation involving a set of ‘high-carbon’ energy transitions based on the phasing out of fossil fuel consumption and ‘low-carbon’ energy transitions featuring the emergence of new renewable energy and other low-carbon technologies (Blondeel et al., 2021). This raises the question of how particular countries or blocs at various levels of development and in different regions of the world engage with — or perhaps disengage from — the two-fold process.
In order to answer these questions from an IPE angle, and specifically the prism of the Growth Models approach (Baccaro, Blyth & Pontusson, 2023; Driscoll & Blyth, 2025), it is important to ascertain how (and under what circumstances) the imperative of decarbonization has altered — or not — preexistent dominant growth coalitions within key decarbonizing blocs.