The Politics of Carbon Markets
1st Edition
Published on 27. August 2014
298 pages
978-1-134-59012-4 (ISBN)
Description
The carbon markets are in the middle of a fundamental crisis - a crisis marked by collapsing prices, fleeing actors, and ever increasing greenhouse gas levels. Yet carbon trading remains at the heart of global attempts to respond to climate change. Not only this, but markets continue to proliferate - particularly in the Global South.
The Politics of Carbon Markets helps to make sense of this paradox and brings two urgently needed insights to the analysis of carbon markets. First, the markets must be understood in relation to the politics involved in their development, maintenance and opposition. Second, this politics is multiform and pervasive. Implementation of new techniques and measuring tools, policy development and contestation, and the structuring context of institutional settings and macro-social forces all involve a variety of political actors and create new forms of political agency. The contributions study the total extent of the carbon markets, from their prehistory to their contemporary expansion and wider impacts.
This wide-ranging political perspective on the carbon markets is invaluable to those studying and interested in ecological markets, climate change governance and environmental politics.
The Politics of Carbon Markets helps to make sense of this paradox and brings two urgently needed insights to the analysis of carbon markets. First, the markets must be understood in relation to the politics involved in their development, maintenance and opposition. Second, this politics is multiform and pervasive. Implementation of new techniques and measuring tools, policy development and contestation, and the structuring context of institutional settings and macro-social forces all involve a variety of political actors and create new forms of political agency. The contributions study the total extent of the carbon markets, from their prehistory to their contemporary expansion and wider impacts.
This wide-ranging political perspective on the carbon markets is invaluable to those studying and interested in ecological markets, climate change governance and environmental politics.
Reviews / Votes
The Politics of Carbon Markets offers an enlivening antidote to carbon market fatigue. The assembled articles avoid moribund debates between proponents and opponents of carbon trading by anchoring carbon markets in the broader concerns of environmental politics; and not a politics of governments and policy instruments, but a postfoundational "lively politics," which interrogates questions of nature, culture and power. Benjamin Stephan and Richard Lane's edited volume is a must read for those seeking to understand the past, present, and future politics of carbon.Simone Pulver, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
Can carbon markets be part of the solution to global climate change, including in the global South? Can they make development more sustainable as well as reduce emissions? This edited volume takes a historical perspective on the evolution of carbon markets, mainly in the North. With close analysis of the political construction of markets, the volume offers food for thought for those who want to understand how it might evolve in developing countries in future.
Harald Winkler, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Carbon markets have long been understood to be exacerbating the very climate crisis they were supposed to help address. What is less understood is why they stagger on regardless. This timely volume greatly illuminates the deep politics of these so-called "zombies" and of the zombie scholarship that sometimes accompanies them. In so doing, it lends welcome empirical substance to the study of that more encompassing zombie phenomenon known as neoliberalism.
Larry Lohmann, The Corner House, UK
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
10 s/w Abbildungen, 5 s/w Tabellen, 5 s/w Zeichnungen
5 Tables, black and white; 5 Line drawings, black and white; 10 Illustrations, black and white
File size
4,78 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-134-59012-4 (9781134590124)
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Persons
Benjamin Stephan is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Globalisation and Governance, Hamburg University, Germany.
Richard Lane is a PhD researcher at the Centre for Global Political Economy, University of Sussex, UK.
Richard Lane is a PhD researcher at the Centre for Global Political Economy, University of Sussex, UK.
Content
1. Zombie markets or zombie analyses? Revivifying the politics of carbon markets Part 1: The politics of carbon before carbon 2. Resources For the Future, resources for growth: the making of the 1975 growth ban 3. Politics by other means. The making of the emissions trading instrument as a 'pre-history' of carbon trading 4. Allometric equations and timber markets: an important forerunner of REDD+? 5. Virtuous Carbon Part 2: The Politics of Carbon 6. A Neo-Gramscian Account of Carbon Markets: The Cases of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme and the Clean Development Mechanism 7. The politics of carbon markets in the global South 8. Carbon governance in China by the creation of a carbon market 9. The currencies of carbon: carbon money and its social meaning Part 3: The politics of carbon after carbon 10. The Politics of Researching Carbon Trading in Australia 11. Dialogue of the Deaf? The CDM's Legimitation Crisis 12. The Post- and Future Politics of Green Economy and REDD+ 13. Political sellout! Carbon markets between depoliticising and repoliticising climate politics
