Von der Schließung zur Öffnung: Akteurskonstellationen in der Energie- und Verkehrswende

In the energy and automotive industries, sectoral corporatist coordination processes have been functioning for many decades. For a long time, these arenas of sectoral self-organisation sealed themselves off from ecological requirements and were thus unable to initiate the energy and traffic turnaround at an early stage. It can be seen that the process in the energy industry took place earlier and more sustainably than in the automotive industry. It was only with the adoption of green positions by almost all political parties and changing international framework conditions – Chernobyl (1986), Paris climate protection agreement (2015), primacy of electromobility on the Chinese market, etc. – that a pragmatic ecological turnaround became the driver for the energy and traffic turnaround in Germany. The change in actor constellations that eventually led to the turnarounds in these fields is systematically unfolded in this article.