Of Heroes, Villains and Climate Capitalism: A Response to Larry Lohmann

Paterson, Matthew; Newell, Peter

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“…By doing so, it will contribute to found empirically debates 2 The British Columbia carbon tax might be an exception (Elgie and McClay 2013;although see Bumpus 2015). among analysts of climate politics (see Bond 2013;Hahnel 2012;Lohmann 2011Lohmann , 2012Paterson and Newell 2012) and potentially inform political action.…”

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Climate capitalism and the global corporate elite network

Sapinski

2015

Environmental Sociology

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This paper explores the political involvement of transnational corporations and their directors in elaborating the project of 'climate capitalism' advanced to address climate change. Climate capitalism seeks to redirect investments from fossil energy to renewable energy generation, so as to foster an ecological modernization of production and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. I use social network analysis to assess the potential for climate capitalism, as a project of a section of the corporate elite, to replace the current 'carboniferous capitalist' regime. Corporate-funded climate and environmental policy groups (CEPGs) constitute major venues for the corporate elite to assemble and plan their response to the climate crisis. By mapping out the network of board-level interlocks between CEPGs and the largest transnational corporations, I first find that certain CEPGs are centrally located among the global intercorporate network, and thus well positioned to promote climate capitalism among the corporate elite. Second, I delineate a climate capitalist inner circle that includes the individual members of the corporate community who arguably are able to exert the greatest power to shape climate capitalism. However, many of them, close to the oil and nuclear sectors, may support a long-term transition away from fossil fuels, incompatible with avoiding dangerous climatic warming.

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Climate capitalism and the global corporate elite network

Sapinski

2015

Environmental Sociology

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Money for nothin’ and coal for free: ‘Technology neutrality’ and biomass development under the Flemish tradable green certificate scheme

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2016

Geoforum

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Environmental Protection as Market Pathology?: Carbon Trading and the Dialectics of the ‘Double Movement’

Carton

2014

Environ Plan D

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Polanyi's concept of the 'double movement' is frequently interpreted as the opposition between the problematic and unsustainable dynamics o f the market and the benign and normatively desirable reaction against this by 'society'. This paper questions this dualistic interpretation of the double movement and undertakes a problematization o f the Polanyian idea o f social and environmental protection. It does this by revisiting the concept o f the double movement in light o f the recent proliferation o f market-based mechanisms for environmental regulation. Through an exploration o f the different interpretations o f Polanyi's work, the paper presents a dialectical reading o f the double movement that conceptualizes the idea o f social protection within a broader capitalist framework. This is then illustrated with the case o f emissions trading as a particular form of environmental protection. Carbon trading as a mitigation strategy, it is argued, corresponds to the Polanyian idea o f 'social protection'in that its protective potential to reduce emissions is itself constrained by the socioeconomic framework within which it operates. This in turn points to the need for a critique o f climate mitigation efforts that goes beyond a focus on current problems with emissions trading schemes.

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Of Heroes, Villains and Climate Capitalism: A Response to Larry Lohmann

Cited by 5 publications

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Climate capitalism and the global corporate elite network

Climate capitalism and the global corporate elite network

Money for nothin’ and coal for free: ‘Technology neutrality’ and biomass development under the Flemish tradable green certificate scheme

Environmental Protection as Market Pathology?: Carbon Trading and the Dialectics of the ‘Double Movement’

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