‘Low carbon’ metals, markets and metaphors: the creation of economic expectations about climate change mitigation

Nerlich, Brigitte

doi:10.1007/s10584-011-0055-3

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“…[ii] A day after the budget, on 23 April, newspapers reported that Ed Miliband, the then Secretary of State for Energy and Climate (another important source of media announcements at that time), had proclaimed that up to four new coal-fired power plants would be built only on the condition that they be fitted with CCS facilities. This announcement referred, like so many at the time, to building a "low carbon future" (Nerlich, 2011) and stopping dangerous climate change. Again reference is made to UK leadership in CCS.…”

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UK media representations of Carbon Capture and Storage

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Jaspal²

2013

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Nerlich, Brigitte and Jaspal, Rusi (2013) A note on versions:The version presented here may differ from the published version or from the version of record. If you wish to cite this item you are advised to consult the publisher's version. Please see the repository url above for details on accessing the published version and note that access may require a subscription. AbstractCarbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a climate change mitigation technology which has had a rather chequered history in British policy making and in the British public sphere. This article deals with the neglected topic of representations of CCS in the British media and their possible impact on public perceptions and public policy. Public perception of CCS is shaped in part by the media which provide tools for making sense of complex technological and political issues such as CCS. This article compares articles on CCS in two UK newspapers, one national (The Times) and one regional (The Aberdeen Press and Journal) in 2011, a year during which some of the last battles over CCS demonstration projects were fought. It applies frame and metaphor analysis to a corpus of 150 articles. Findings reveal that during 2011 CCS coverage moved through a cycle of hype and disillusionment, with both newspapers reaching a trough of disappointment at the end of 2011. It will be difficult to reignite interest in CCS in this context, both in terms of media and public attention, and in terms of policy and investment. Regional confidence in national CCS policy in particular will be difficult to recover.

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UK media representations of Carbon Capture and Storage

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2013

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“…"Going green", for example, is a widely used metaphor signalling adoption of climate-friendly political positions, participation in climate-friendly practices and advocacy for the adoption of such practices (Bevitori 2011;Dobrin 2010). "Green" in its metaphorical sense features regularly in arguments exploring the business opportunities presented by climate change as in discussing the therapeutic but also economic gains from "green medicine" (Väliverronen and Hellsten 2002) or explaining how industries from mining and metallurgy to car manufacturing can increase their profits by "turning green into gold" (Nerlich 2012). The metaphorical term "Green New Deal" was widespread in use in the aftermath of the 2008-2009 global financial crisis to refer to economic stimulus packages that would include significant climate-friendly investments (Feindt and Cowell 2010).…”

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How Constructive News Outlets Reported the Synergistic Effects of Climate Change and Covid-19 Through Metaphors

Atanasova

2021

Journalism Practice

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COVID-19 has provoked fears that the heavy reporting of pandemic developments may cause climate change to slip from public attention. Views have also converged that the focus should be on the positive lessons of COVID-19 for addressing climate change. This paper examined Guardian Online and Positive News to identify examples of good practice in reporting the synergistic effects of climate change and COVID-19, as both are committed to covering climate change and practice solutions-oriented constructive journalism that provides context by explaining relations between issues. The study sought to identify the types of synergistic effects that were reported and how they were reported through metaphors-key conceptualisation tools. Analysis of 153 news articles published in the first year of the pandemic showed that the coverage of synergistic effects was solutions-oriented and synergistic effects were discussed mainly through Movement and Colour metaphors-particularly the colour Green. War metaphors which have dominated reporting when climate change and COVID-19 have been discussed separately were rare. Reliance on Movement and Colour metaphors can be interpreted as a positive practice, as Movement metaphors are familiar, vivid and more flexible than War metaphors, while Green metaphors are closely associated with environmentalism and have positive connotations.

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“…Koteyko and Brigitte Nerlich use the tools of "corpora linguistics" or "corpus linguistics" -a computer-assisted method of collecting and tracking instances of words in texts to derive abstract rules by which language functions -to track carbon compounds, conceived linguistically rather than chemically (Koteyko 2010;Nerlich 2012). Their studies offer an explicit engagement with the public spaces in which these novel carbon compounds occur as profoundly important political sites:…”

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Trickster carbon: stories, science, and postcolonial interventions for climate justice

Girvan

2017

Journal of Political Ecology

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This article proposes the idea of the trickster figure as a way to account for the shifting material, and cultural properties of carbon in the cultural politics of climate change. Combining scientific understandings of allotropy in chemistry -describing the property of certain elements to manifest in various highly diverse forms -and the insights of Caribbean trickster stories, trickster carbon enables novel understandings of the multiple workings and effects of carbon as a material and cultural element. Rather than granting 'carbon' a singular seemingly-scientific meaning or reducing carbon to a singular problem that master human agents can ever definitively trap or sequester, this notion allows us to view carbon's unique ability to shape-shift in a variety of contexts and for myriad agendas. Understanding carbon in this way provides more than simply a theoretical or imaginative 'romp'; rather, this lens enables both a critique of the ways in which carbon is mobilized in practice as a profit-generating tool of colonial capture and also a generative opening for understanding carbon's potential as a connector to more transformative associations and postcolonial politics. As an ambivalent and paradoxical figure, trickster carbon offers a powerful method of cultural way-finding through the urgent concern of climate change. Key words: Trickster; postcolonial; decolonial; STS; stories; cultural politics of climate change; carbon RésuméCet article propose l'idée du personnage du trickster comme un moyen de rendre compte du changement matériel et de propriétés culturelles du carbone, dans la politique culturelle du changement climatique. Combinant la compréhension scientifique de l'allotropie dans la chimie -décrivant la propriété de certains éléments de se manifester sous diverses formes -et la contribution des histoires de trickster caribéennes, le «carbone trickster» permet de nouvelles compréhensions des multiples travaux et effets du carbone en tant qu'élément matériel et culturel. Plutôt que d'accorder au «carbone» un sens singulier semblable à la science ou de réduire le carbone à un problème singulier que les humains peuvent définitivement piéger ou séquestrer, cette notion nous permet de voir la capacité unique du carbone à changer de forme dans divers contextes et pour une myriade d'agendas. Appréhender le carbone de cette manière fournit plus qu'une simple «farce» théorique ou imaginative. Au contraire, cet angle d'approche permet de critiquer la façon dont le carbone est mobilisé en pratique en tant qu'outil générateur de la capture coloniale, et de s'ouvrir à la compréhension de son potentiel en tant que connecteur aux associations transformatrices et à la politique postcoloniale. En tant que figure ambivalente et paradoxale, le «carbone trickster» offre une méthode solide pour lutter contre le changement climatique.

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‘Low carbon’ metals, markets and metaphors: the creation of economic expectations about climate change mitigation

Cited by 20 publications

References 32 publications

UK media representations of Carbon Capture and Storage

UK media representations of Carbon Capture and Storage

How Constructive News Outlets Reported the Synergistic Effects of Climate Change and Covid-19 Through Metaphors

Trickster carbon: stories, science, and postcolonial interventions for climate justice

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