Reflecting on neoliberal natures: An exchange

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“…Taken together, this suggests that the search for land-based negative emissions, be they in biofuel production for BECCS or for forest conservation and other "natural climate solutions," risks deepening economic inequality if lessons from past experiences are not taken seriously. First, land-based removal might allow for continued resource exploitation, fossil fuel-based production and wanton consumption in the global North, while creating exclusions and restricting development opportunities in some of the poorest areas of the global South (Bigger et al, 2018;Lohmann, 2008). Second, if ineffective, the likely mitigation deterrence (Carton, 2019;Markusson et al, 2018) of negative emission promises would lead to a global carbon budget overshoot and higher global warming that will have disproportionate negative impacts on the poorest regions of the world.…”

Section: Justice and Ethics In The Uneven Geographies Of Carbon Remmentioning

confidence: 99%

Negative emissions and the long history of carbon removal

Carton

Asiyanbi

Beck

et al. 2020

WIREs Climate Change

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Recent IPCC assessments highlight a key role for large-scale carbon removal in meeting the objectives of the Paris Agreement. This focus on removal, also referred to as negative emissions, is suggestive of novel opportunities, risks, and challenges in addressing climate change, but tends to build on the narrow techno-economic framings that characterize integrated assessment modeling. While the discussion on negative emissions bears important parallels to a wider and older literature on carbon sequestration and carbon sinks, this earlier scholarship-particularly from the critical social sciences-is seldom engaged with by the negative emissions research community. In this article, we survey this "long history" of carbon removal and seek to draw out lessons for ongoing research and the emerging public debate on negative emissions. We argue that research and policy on negative emissions should proceed not just from projections of the future, but also from an acknowledgement of past controversies, successes and failures. In particular, our review calls attention to the irreducibly political character of carbon removal imaginaries and accounting practices and urges acknowledgement of past experiences with the implementation of (small-scale) carbon sequestration projects. Our review in this way highlights the importance of seeing continuity in the carbon removal discussion and calls for more engagement with existing social science scholarship on the subject. Acknowledging continuity and embracing an interdisciplinary research agenda on carbon removal are important aspects in making climate change mitigation research more responsible, and a precondition to avoid repeating past mistakes and failures.

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Section: Justice and Ethics In The Uneven Geographies Of Carbon Remmentioning

confidence: 99%

Negative emissions and the long history of carbon removal

Carton

Asiyanbi

Beck

et al. 2020

WIREs Climate Change

148

100

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“…The leveraging of carbon assets for debt and the creation of interest-bearing capital is directly supported by international financial institutions, such as the World Bank, that provide loans for firms and governments on the basis of protecting nature. This is evidence of Wall Street Consensus policies penetrating "green" development strategies, which some call the neoliberalisation of nature (Bigger et al 2018) or financialisation of nature (Ouma et al 2018). 7 For a provocative discussion on the role of borders in capitalism, see Mezzadra and Neilson (2013).…”

Section: The Finance-extraction-transitions Nexus and The Geographies...mentioning

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The “Finance‐Extraction‐Transitions Nexus”: Geographies of the Green Transition in the 21^st Century

Franz,

McNelly

2024

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The hegemonic understanding of the green transition will require a massive surge in mineral extraction. We contend that this entails wider, radical shifts in 21st century financialised capitalism. While there has been increasing critical interest in the role of finance capital in development, the links between finance, extraction, and the green transition have been largely overlooked. We fill this gap by arguing that the green transition, understood as a transformation of global capitalism, is marked by new rounds of appropriation, exploitation, and extraction, (re)producing dependencies for resource‐rich Global South countries. These emergent geographies of the green transition are best evaluated through what we call the “finance‐extraction‐transitions nexus”. The nexus highlights the interplay between finance capital, mineral extraction, and the material, socio‐economic, and environmental implications of the green transition. This provides new ways to theoretically, conceptually, and methodologically engage with resource extraction and the green transition in the age of financialised capitalism.

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“…Further, the central importance of green-blue space as a haven especially during the global Covid-19 pandemic (Pouso et al, 2021), sits alongside contemporary wetland use shaped by wider cuts to housing, mental health provision and youth services. Pro-environmental behaviours can only be supported once the impact of these 'Neoliberal natures' (Bigger et al, 2018) are acknowledged and addressed.…”

Section: Correspondencementioning

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Place‐making in waterscapes: Wetlands as palimpsest spaces of recreation

Gearey

2022

Geographical Journal

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This paper argues that acknowledging the wide diversity of current recreational practices on English wetlands enables governance practitioners and site managers to appreciate the full extent of contemporary human engagements with these watery ecosystems. These insights can assist those tasked with managing wetland resources to develop more inclusive and sustainable development plans to support a wide range of actors whose connections to wetland spaces are important for their health, wellbeing and sense of self. Enabling sustainable future uses of wetlands will involve recognising and engaging with differential articulations of place‐making within these diverse waterscapes which themselves are in a constant state of transition. This calls our attention to the dynamic nature of wetlands, and the ways in which place‐making in these spaces shifts and adapts to the changing topography and biota within these waterscapes; each encounter with the space is slightly reconfigured and recast every time. Wetlands' liminality also extends to the diverse and often esoteric uses of these ecosystems for recreation in its most encompassing sense; as leisure spaces, places of renewal and as locations of place‐making practices. Drawing upon Barbara Bender's exploration of landscape as phenomenological palimpsest, this paper utilises empirical interview data drawn from a recent research project, ‘WetlandLIFE’, to explore how far contemporary human uses of wetlands engage with processes of restoration and reanimation. Making use of the different leisure narratives of the research participants across five English wetland sites, the paper explores the ways in which ‘place’ is differentially interpreted, enabled and enacted in these saturated spaces. These practises and performances can be functional, prosaic engagements with wetlands; painting, walking, photographing, sitting, reflecting. They can also be anarchic, counter‐cultural and ‘delinquent’; wild‐camping, raving, poaching, partying. The wide spectrum of behaviours and attitudes catalogued reveal the contested use and value of these waterscapes in contemporary contexts.

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Reflecting on neoliberal natures: An exchange

Cited by 24 publications

References 174 publications

Negative emissions and the long history of carbon removal

Negative emissions and the long history of carbon removal

The “Finance‐Extraction‐Transitions Nexus”: Geographies of the Green Transition in the 21^st Century

Place‐making in waterscapes: Wetlands as palimpsest spaces of recreation

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Reflecting on neoliberal natures: An exchange

Cited by 24 publications

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Negative emissions and the long history of carbon removal

Negative emissions and the long history of carbon removal

The “Finance‐Extraction‐Transitions Nexus”: Geographies of the Green Transition in the 21st Century

Place‐making in waterscapes: Wetlands as palimpsest spaces of recreation

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The “Finance‐Extraction‐Transitions Nexus”: Geographies of the Green Transition in the 21^st Century