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Carbon Lock-In: Types, Causes, and Policy Implications
Existing technologies, institutions, andbehavioral norms together act to constrain the rate and magnitude of carbon emissions reductions in the coming decades. The inertia of carbon emissions due to such mutually reinforcing physical, economic, and social constraints is referred to as carbon lock-in. Carbon lock-in is a special case of path dependency, which is common in the evolution of comple...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Research Letters
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1748-9326
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/8/084023