ABSTRACT
Energy transitions in the face of climate change and peak oil are emerging across various scales of government, often with widely varying and sometimes disappointing effects for their electorates. Civil society organizations are also engaged at international, national and local levels, finding willing coalitions in communities disaffected by the lack of decarbonization actions by governmental actors. The private sector is increasingly profiting from the new “green” economy, via the rhetoric of “green growth” and associated grants and incentives from governments. These somewhat stereotypical and simplistic statements about energy transition “stakeholders” conceal a rich – and getting richer – range of organizations and actors working in between and across the decarbonization and clean energy fields, ranging from policy and advocacy to active experiments and large-scale adoption of socio-technological programs.
