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Articles by Jochen Markard
Dead-end pathways: Conceptualizing, assessing, avoiding
Citation: Rosenbloom D, Meadowcroft J, Markard J, Landry J-S, Kabbara M (2025) Dead-end pathways: Conceptualizing, assessing, avoiding. PLOS Clim 4(8): e0000693. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000693 Editor: Laurence L. Delina, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HONG KONG Received: January 20, 2025; Accepted: July 25, 2025; Published: August 20, 2025 Copyright: © 2025 Rosenbloom et al.
Challenges in the acceleration of sustainability transitions
Grand sustainability challenges such as climate change, degradation of ecosystems, waste production and disposal, lack of clean water, poverty, or inequality pose extraordinary societal questions. The global initiative to target 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) and the Paris climate agreement underline the urgency of these challenges. Widespread diffusion of technological innovations and new infrastructures is essential for the achievement of many SDGs (Thacker et al 2019).
Political conflict and climate policy: the European emissions trading system as a Trojan Horse for the low-carbon transition?
Many economists, businesses, and policymakers view carbon pricing as the single best policy approach to address climate change. Such optimism, however, tends to neglect the political conflicts surrounding climate policy and the necessity to accelerate the ongoing low-carbon energy transition. To unveil these conflicts, we analyze the responses of key actors to public consultations in 2015–16 concerning the EU emissions trading system (ETS) and the EU renewable energy directive.
A COVID-19 recovery for climate
In response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, countries are launching economic recovery programs to mitigate unemployment and stabilize core industries. Although it is understandably difficult to contemplate other hazards in the midst of this outbreak, it is important to remember that we face another major crisis that threatens human prosperity—climate change.
Opinion: Why carbon pricing is not sufficient to mitigate climate change-and how “sustainability transition policy” can help
Carbon pricing is often presented as the primary policy approach to address climate change. We challenge this position and offer “sustainability transition policy” (STP) as an alternative. Carbon pricing has weaknesses with regard to five central dimensions: 1) problem framing and solution orientation, 2) policy priorities, 3) innovation approach, 4) contextual considerations, and 5) politics.
Opinion: Why carbon pricing is not sufficient to mitigate climate change-and how “sustainability transition policy” can help
Carbon pricing is often presented as the primary policy approach to address climate change. We challenge this position and offer “sustainability transition policy” (STP) as an alternative. Carbon pricing has weaknesses with regard to five central dimensions: 1) problem framing and solution orientation, 2) policy priorities, 3) innovation approach, 4) contextual considerations, and 5) politics.
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