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After Cancún

Climate Governance or Climate Conflicts

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  • © 2011

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Editors:
  1. Elmar Altvater

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

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  2. Achim Brunnengräber

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

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  • Economic Growth, Climate Change and Energy Policy - A Critical Examination

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  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
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About this book

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.

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"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

Editors and Affiliations

  • 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

About the editors

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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