{"id":1315,"date":"2021-05-18T06:55:35","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T05:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/?p=1315"},"modified":"2021-05-18T06:55:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T05:55:36","slug":"why-the-low-carbon-transition-may-be-much-cheaper-than-models-predict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/2021\/05\/18\/why-the-low-carbon-transition-may-be-much-cheaper-than-models-predict\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the low carbon transition may be much cheaper than models predict"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To achieve net-zero emissions by mid-century, global energy systems must undergo a wholesale switch to low-carbon and energy-efficient technologies. However, many models used to chart this transition imply that there are benefits in delaying investment in these technologies, waiting instead for R&amp;D to drive down costs over time. Our new paper in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.1088\/1748-9326\/abde07\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Research Letters<\/a> draws on evidence from more than 200 journal articles and concludes that policies promoting such \u201cinduced innovation\u201d have been a clear factor behind the remarkable success of low-carbon technologies. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carbonbrief.org\/guest-post-why-the-low-carbon-transition-may-be-much-cheaper-than-models-predict\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.carbonbrief.org\/guest-post-why-the-low-carbon-transition-may-be-much-cheaper-than-models-predict\">Carbon Brief<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To achieve net-zero emissions by mid-century, global energy systems must undergo a wholesale switch to low-carbon and energy-efficient technologies. However, many models used to chart this transition imply that there are benefits in delaying investment in these technologies, waiting instead for R&amp;D to drive down costs over time. Our new paper in Environmental Research Letters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1316,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions\/1316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}