Framing low-carbon pathways: A discursive analysis of contending storylines surrounding the phase-out of coal-fired power in Ontario

摘要: Abstract Transition studies have made constructive efforts to attend more closely the politics of sustainability transitions, with discourse emerging as an increasingly important means interrogating these dynamics. Drawing on perspectives, this study deploys multi-dimensional discursive approach explore framing struggles surrounding a climate change mitigation experience international significance (the phase-out coal-fired power in Ontario), revealing how ideas, interests, institutions, and infrastructure four I’s sustainable energy transitions) interact constituting pathways sustainability. This captures way which contending actors frame issues technologies, modulating possibilities shaping sequences choices that link current societal arrangements future low-carbon states. The elaborates processes negotiation among competing interests priorities helped define pathway eliminate coal. It also suggests regulatory measures may help accelerate pace transitions succeed where market approaches are politically untenable.