After Cancún

1. Front Matter

   Pages 1-9

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2. With the Market Against Climate Catastrophe – Can That Succeed? – Introduction

   • Elmar Altvater, Achim Brunnengräber

   Pages 11-21

3. Climate Capitalism

   • Peter Newell, Matthew Paterson

   Pages 23-44

4. Climate Politics as Investment

   • Simon Wolf

   Pages 45-69

5. Contradictions of the Commodity Carbon – On the Material and Symbolic Production of a Market

   • Martin Bitter

   Pages 71-93

6. Economic Growth and Climate Change: Cap-And-Trade or Emission Tax?

   • Edward Nell, Willi Semmler, Armon Rezai

   Pages 95-110

7. Greening the Economy in the European Union

   • Achim Brunnengräber

   Pages 111-124

8. The „Tragedy of the Atmosphere“ or the Doubling of the Carbon Cycle and the Circulation of Capital

   • Elmar Altvater

   Pages 125-143

9. A Brief History of Emission Trading Systems

   • Miranda A. Schreurs

   Pages 145-155

10. Searching for Meaning. Intersubjective Dimensions in Environmental Policies

    • Bettina Knothe

    Pages 157-171

11. On the Way to the Future – Renewable Energies

    • Lutz Mez, Achim Brunnengräber

    Pages 173-189

The world is facing several serious challenges at the close of the fossil and nuclear energy regime: the limited resources of cheap conventional oil can only be surmounted by tapping unconventional oil reserves, e.g. deep sea oil. The explosion of the oil platform Deepwater Horizon in 2010 and the subsequent oil spill caused enormous damage, which even a year later cannot be fully estimated. Another even more important threat emanating from the fossil and nuclear energy regime has been brought to our attention by the Fukushima disaster. Last but not least, the problem of climate change caused by an increase in greenhouse gas emissions is looming, despite the fact that the international community has agreed on a considerable reduction of these emissions. Is this poor result of the Kyoto Protocol and the failure of successive climate conferences the consequence of a preference for the use of market-based instruments? The majority of climate scientists, economists, and politicians believe in the efficiency of “cap-and-trade” regulations. They even conceive them as a constituent ingredient of a “Green New Deal” or “Global Green Recovery”. The contributions in this volume provide a critical examination of the theoretical foundations, the political implications, and the empirical experiences of the application of market mechanisms and financial instruments to climate policy.

• Climate Change
• Climate Policy
• Economic Growth
• Energy Policy
• Nuclear Energy Regime
• Climate change management

"Die Autoren bieten insgesamt einen guten Überblick über Ansätze und Ergebnisse der einzelnen Teilprojekte des gemeinsamen Forschungsverbundes." Portal für Politikwissenschaft (www.pw-portal.de), 10.05.2012

• emeritus for International Political Economy, Free University Berlin and a member of the Scientific Council of ATTAC, Germany

  Elmar Altvater

• Political Science at the Free University Berlin, Technische Universität Dresden, Chair for International Politics, Berlin

  Achim Brunnengräber

Elmar Altvater is a Professor emeritus for International Political Economy at the Freie Universität Berlin. Mail: altvater@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Achim Brunnengräber is a Visiting Professor at the Technische Universität Dresden, Chair for International Politics, and Associated Professor (Privatdozent) in Political Science at the Freie Universität Berlin. Mail: priklima@zedat.fu-berlin.de

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