Tobias S Schmidt

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ID3604823
NOMETobias S Schmidt
PRENOMESTobias S
SOBRENOMESchmidt
ASSINATURASCHMIDT T S
AFILIAÇÕESETH Zurich
ORCID0000-0002-7971-2187
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS33
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES211
OBRAS COMO AUTOR33
OBRAS COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2012
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H8

  • Transforming intermediaries to accelerate sustainability transitions

    Open AccessAdrianna Pineda, Tobias S Schmidt et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Innovation and…2026

    This paper investigates the roles and evolution of incumbent intermediaries in sustainability transitions, focusing on the World Bank Group (WBG) and its support for renewable energy technologies in developing countries. We propose a framework analyzing how “fitness”—the alignment between technology characteristics, regime conditions, and intermediary structures—shapes patterns of intermediary support. We find that the WBG's success in scaling up…

  • A global analysis of expected revenues from carbon dioxide removal

    Open AccessAlyssa Kozian, Jakob Ellensohn et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2026

    Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) must scale rapidly to achieve net-zero emissions by mid-century. This scale-up requires substantial investment in the CDR industry, underpinned by stable revenues. While various different revenue streams are conceivable, and academic literature proposes diverse interventions to support CDR, we lack an empirical understanding of revenue expectations from the actors that develop and deploy CDR solutions. Drawing on 50 s…

  • Bridging the fuel tax revenue gap in the move to electric mobility

    Open AccessBessie Noll, Tobias S Schmidt et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2026

  • The electric vehicle transition and vanishing fuel tax revenues

    Open AccessBessie Noll, Tobias S Schmidt et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2026Referências: 1

    As electric vehicle adoption accelerates globally, fuel tax revenues decline, exposing government budgets without a proposed replacement tax on electric vehicles. We estimate fuel tax transition exposure across 168 countries, demonstrating that relative exposure, in percentage of total government revenues, varies substantially by income level. Our analysis finds that global public revenues from fuel taxes totalled approximately US$900 billion in …

  • The acceleration of low-carbon transitions

    Open AccessB K Sovacool, Frank W Geels et al.ARTICLEEnergy Research & Social Science2025Citada por: 8Referências: 102

    Given that several low-carbon transitions are now accelerating, what can we say about the drivers, conditions, mechanisms, and dynamics of acceleration? This question is widely discussed in policy and academic circles, but so far there is little attempt to develop a more comprehensive answer that considers the pluralistic and heterogeneous nature of what acceleration is, how it comes about, and how it can be studied moving forward. To provide a m…

  • How do developing countries estimate their climate finance needs under the Paris Agreement

    Open AccessAbdulrasheed Isah, Florian Egli et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2025Referências: 6

    Developing countries estimate their climate finance needs in NDCs using top-down, bottom-up, or hybrid methods. • Influencing factors include political institutions, stakeholder engagement, technical capacity, etc. • Climate finance quantification is technical and political, serving both negotiation and signaling roles. • A typology highlighting NDC archetypes is proposed: inclusive, strategic, consultant-facilitated, and minimalist. • Proposed p…

  • Globalising innovation through co-inventions–the success case of the Korean lithium-ion battery industry

    Open AccessLeopold Peiseler, Ye Lin Jun et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    Radical innovations can shift the global competitiveness of entire nations. While countries typically struggle to absorb knowledge about novel technologies quickly, in which knowledge tends to be spatially sticky, an important exception is the fast catch-up of the Korean Li-ion battery industry from Japan in the early 2000s. In this paper, we conduct an exploratory case study on this surprising success story. Focussing on patent co-inventions bet…

  • Taking stock of the implementation gap in climate policy

    Open AccessTaryn Fransen, Jonas Meckling et al.ARTICLENature Climate Change2023

  • Scrutinizing countries’ climate commitments

    Open AccessFlorian Egli, Nicolas Schmid et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2023

  • The role of policy design in policy continuation and ratcheting-up of policy ambition

    Open AccessSebastian Sewerin, Lukas Paul Fesenfeld et al.ARTICLEPolicy and Society2023Citada por: 4Referências: 49

    Effectively addressing grand societal challenges like climate change and environmental degradation requires policy intervention that is not only continuous but also increasing in ambition over time. However, negative feedback could lead to policies being weakened or even discontinued after a while. An important but unresolved policy question, therefore, is whether policies can be deliberately designed to survive (i.e., to “stick”) and, ideally, b…

  • The politics of enabling tipping points for sustainable development

    Open AccessLukas Paul Fesenfeld, Nicolas Schmid et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2022

  • Backlash to fossil fuel phase-outs

    Open AccessFlorian Egli, Nicolas Schmid et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Phasing out coal is a crucial lever in reaching international climate targets. However, the resulting jobs losses might trigger voter backlash, making phase-outs politically costly. Here, we present an analysis of the electoral response to coal mining job losses in US presidential elections using matched and bordering difference-in-difference estimators. Our findings confirm that fossil fuel phase-outs can result in voter backlash. In our main sp…

  • Financing the energy transition

    Open AccessFlorian Egli, Friedemann Polzin et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Funding Information: This work was conducted as part of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme project INNOPATHS under Grant Agreement No. 730403. ETH Zurich: This work was supported by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) under Contract No. 16.0222. The opinions expressed and arguments employed herein do not necessarily reflect the official views of the Swiss Government

  • Catching-up in green industries

    Tyeler Matsuo, Abhishek Malhotra et al.ARTICLEInnovation and Development2022Citada por: 4Referências: 4

    As latecomers to the industrialization process, developing countries may face barriers to upgrading from the production of mass-produced goods to higher-value technologies. Scholars have suggested that 'windows of opportunity' can temporarily lower entry barriers and provide an opportunity for latecomers to catch up to or even leapfrog incumbents. In this paper, we use the literature on product architecture to build on the concept of windows of o…

  • Governing complex societal problems

    Open AccessNicolas Schmid, Leonore Haelg et al.ARTICLERegulation & Governance2021Citada por: 3Referências: 90

    When addressing complex societal problems, public regulation is increasingly complemented by private regulation. Extant literature has provided valuable insights into the effectiveness of such complex governance structures, with most empirical studies focusing on how public regulation influences private regulation. Conversely, the impact of private on public regulation is less well studied. Here, we investigate this impact with a focus on technol…

  • Strengthen finance in sustainability transitions research

    Open AccessBjarne Steffen, Tobias S SchmidtARTICLEEnvironmental Innovation and…2021Citada por: 12Referências: 21

  • The politics of climate finance

    Open AccessAnna Geddes, Nicolas Schmid et al.ARTICLEEnergy Research & Social Science2020Citada por: 6Referências: 29

  • Explaining Advocacy Coalition Change with Policy Feedback

    Open AccessNicolas Schmid, Sebastian Sewerin et al.ARTICLEPolicy Studies Journal2020Citada por: 49Referências: 98

    Despite the prominence of exogenous factors in theories of policy change, the precise mechanisms that link such factors to policy change remain elusive: The effects of exogenous factors on the politics underlying policy change are not sufficiently conceptualized and empirically analyzed. To address this gap, we propose to distinguish between truly exogenous factors and policy outcomes to better understand policy change. Specifically, we combine t…

  • Measuring the temporal dynamics of policy mixes – An empirical analysis of renewable energy policy mixes’ balance and design features in nine countries

    Open AccessTobias S Schmidt, Sebastian SewerinARTICLEResearch Policy2019

    Complex societal or environmental problems require fast and substantial socio-technical transitions. For instance, in the case of climate change, these transitions need to take place in the energy, transport and several industry sectors. To induce and accelerate such transitions, numerous policy interventions are required, which interact with each other in policy mixes. While several conceptual studies on policy mixes have been published recently…

  • Adverse effects of rising interest rates on sustainable energy transitions

    Open AccessTobias S Schmidt, Bjarne Steffen et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2019Citada por: 5Referências: 5

  • Managing tradeoffs in green industrial policies

    Open AccessTyeler Matsuo, Tobias S SchmidtARTICLEWorld Development2019Citada por: 14Referências: 23

  • The role of actors in the policy design process

    Open AccessLeonore Haelg, Sebastian Sewerin et al.ARTICLEPolicy Sciences2019Citada por: 33Referências: 29

  • Supporting energy technology deployment while avoiding unintended technological lock-in

    Open AccessLeonore Haelg, Marius Zumwald et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2018

    Can designs inspired by control theory keep deployment

  • Technology as a driver of climate and energy politics

    Open AccessTobias S Schmidt, Sebastian SewerinARTICLENature Energy2017

  • Hybridizing low-carbon technology deployment policy and fossil fuel subsidy reform

    Open AccessTyeler Matsuo, Tobias S SchmidtARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2017

    The environmental argument behind fossil fuel subsidy reform is strong, particularly among international finance institutions wishing to support ‘transformational’ low-carbon development. However, supporting reform in practice has often met methodological and political barriers. Instead, a large share of international climate finance has flowed to national policies and measures that incentivize the deployment of low-carbon technologies such as re…