Pacifying uncooperative carbon: examining the materiality of the carbon market

Liu, John Chung‐En

doi:10.1080/03085147.2017.1408250

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“…Any remaining permits that emitters save with carbon efficiency improvements can be sold to polluters that have increased emissions. Although this system requires more monitoring and enforcement, it is sometimes more politically viable because it allows businesses and organizations more flexibility, and often the costs are more hidden from consumers (Andrew, Kaidonis, and Andrew 2010; Cooper et al 2017; Harrison 2010; Liu 2017). Differences aside, both policies set a price on carbon emissions to create a more stable world climate—at a cost.…”

Section: How Do Carbon Prices Work?mentioning

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Drivers of Carbon Price Adoption in Wealthy Democracies: International or Domestic Forces?

Driscoll

2021

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

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Is carbon price adoption in wealthy democracies driven more by international or domestic forces? Event history analyses reveal that carbon price adoption is more likely in countries with less fossil fuel energy use (and, by proxy, less powerful fossil fuel business-elite actors) and with less encumbered democratic institutions (i.e., fewer institutional veto points). These findings are triangulated through cross-sectional comparisons and case studies. In short, wealthy democracies enact carbon prices according to the degree to which domestic actors or costs constrain or enable enactment and implementation. The author argues that the global free-rider problem, posed by nonbinding international climate agreements and lack of enforcement, and fossil fuel business-elite power undermine the force of international values and norms. World society scholarship should attend more to (1) whether international participation incurs substantial local costs or powerful stakeholder opposition and (2) whether the benefits of such participation are more domestically or globally distributed.

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Section: How Do Carbon Prices Work?mentioning

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Drivers of Carbon Price Adoption in Wealthy Democracies: International or Domestic Forces?

Driscoll

2021

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

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“…But while Australian governments describe the nation as a global ‘hotspot’ for soil and blue carbon, committing over AU$120 million to developing relevant methods in the last five years, neither has moved far beyond the experimental level. This is due to challenges common to all ‘non‐point sources’, or landscape‐scale emissions, as the biophysical properties of some carbon pools limit their measurability (Liu, 2017).…”

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Converging old and new carbon frontiers in northern Australia

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Over the past 15 years, international climate policy and governance practice have shifted from a linear model of carbon emissions management to a circular model. Whereas the former primarily focused on reducing absolute emissions, the latter focuses on balancing emissions sources and sinks. Australia, a major global exporter of ‘old’ carbon resources such as coal, has actively embraced circular carbon policies and their related ‘new’ carbon resources such as carbon credits. Focusing on Australia's Northern Territory as a site of old and new carbon economies, where government administrators have actively sought to host carbon circulations and loops, this paper examines three interlinked cases to illustrate the interdependencies generated through circular carbon policies. Identifying how sources, sinks, and the mediation of relations between them all constitute key contemporary carbon frontiers, we conclude by calling for a research agenda that analyses ‘old’ and ‘new’ carbon economies as a co‐produced assemblage rather than as isolated zones.

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“…The most relevant work to this study comes from the researchers exploring the performativity of warming metrics in climate governance. GHGs are materially heterogenous ( Liu, 2017 ) and choosing a commensuration always involves the exclusion of plausible alternative methodologies ( Cooper, 2015 ). Different metric designs make the warming impacts of GHGs produce varying evaluations of the relative severity of the same polluting behaviours.…”

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When you wish upon a (GWP) star: Environmental governance and the reflexive performativity of global warming metrics

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The metrics used in environmental management are performative. That is, the tools deployed to classify and measure the natural world interact with the things they were designed to observe. The idea of performativity also captures the way these interactions shape or distort the governance activities that metrics are used to inform. The performativity of metrics reveals how mundane practices of measurement and auditing are inscribed with substantial power. This has proven particularly true for the global warming metrics, like GWP100, that are central to the management of anthropogenic climate change. Greenhouse gases are materially heterogenous, and the metrics used to commensurate their various warming impacts influence the distribution of both culpability and capital in climate policy and markets. The publication of a new warming metric, GWP* (or GWP Star), has generated a modest scientific controversy, as a diverse cast of stakeholders recognize this performativity seek to influence the metrological regime under which they live. We analyse this controversy, particularly as it unfolded in the fractious discourse around sustainable food and farming, to develop the concept of reflexive performativity: where actors are anticipatory and strategic in their engagement with the metrics that are used to govern their lives. We situate this idea in relation to, and in tentative evidential support of, the concept of reflexive modernization.

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Pacifying uncooperative carbon: examining the materiality of the carbon market

Cited by 14 publications

References 60 publications

Drivers of Carbon Price Adoption in Wealthy Democracies: International or Domestic Forces?

Drivers of Carbon Price Adoption in Wealthy Democracies: International or Domestic Forces?

Converging old and new carbon frontiers in northern Australia

When you wish upon a (GWP) star: Environmental governance and the reflexive performativity of global warming metrics

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