A Rejoinder to Matthew Paterson and Peter Newell

Lohmann, Larry

doi:10.1111/j.1467-7660.2012.01795.x

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“…Lohmann (2012) seems to insist that current problems with the EU ETS are exemplary of any carbon trading scheme (see, eg, also Lohmann, 2011 a), but this ignores ongoing attempts by the European Commission to increase allowance prices and assuage the market's problems. Following the revision of the EU ETS directive in 2009, for example, the Commission has standardized allocation criteria and centralized control over the registry so as to take away the ability of member states to influence quota.…”

Section: Habitation As Improvement? the Paradoxical Dynamics Of Carbomentioning

confidence: 96%

“…Indeed, activists as well as scholars regularly refer to the troubled track record of the EU ETS to elucidate the case that carbon trading is unable to help deliver the necessary emission reductions to avert climate change (Gilbertson and Reyes, 2009). Lohmann (2012Lohmann ( , page 1177, for example, argues that "Carbon markets are not about decarbonization" at all but instead "help the most fossil-dependent parts of the industrial structure avoid decarbonization, while interfering with other measures that would foster it". In doing so, he dismisses the suggestion of, for example, Newell and Paterson (2010; that improved regulation of the market could alleviate current problems with the EU ETS.…”

Section: Habitation As Improvement? the Paradoxical Dynamics Of Carbomentioning

confidence: 98%

“…While I am sympathetic to Lohmann's critique of carbon trading, it seems important not to confuse the EU ETS's lamentable history and the widespread exploitation of its shortcomings with errors in the logic of emissions trading itself (Castree, 2010). Lohmann (2012) seems to insist that current problems with the EU ETS are exemplary of any carbon trading scheme (see, eg, also Lohmann, 2011a), but this ignores ongoing attempts by the European Commission to increase allowance prices and assuage the market's problems. Following the revision of the EU ETS directive in 2009, for example, the Commission has standardized allocation criteria and centralized control over the registry so as to take away the ability of member states to influence quota.…”

Section: Emissions Trading As Environmental Protection?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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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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Section: Habitation As Improvement? the Paradoxical Dynamics Of Carbomentioning

confidence: 96%

Section: Habitation As Improvement? the Paradoxical Dynamics Of Carbomentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Emissions Trading As Environmental Protection?mentioning

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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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“…Similarly, Lohmann () elaborates on how the production of carbon credits hinges on a process of technological, temporal, spatial, and chemical abstraction that sidesteps political choices about how, when, and where emission reductions are to be made. Apart from having clear social and economic consequences, the internal logics of market‐based instruments are thereby believed to have far‐reaching ramifications for the claims these instruments make to environmental effectiveness (Lohmann ).…”

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Dancing to the Rhythms of the Fossil Fuel Landscape: Landscape Inertia and the Temporal Limits to Market-Based Climate Policy

Carton

2016

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This article makes a contribution to the critique of market-based mechanisms for climate and energy policy. It explores the environmental effectiveness of market instruments by engaging a broadly conceived "fossil fuel landscape", or the material, social, and political inertia of fossil energy dependence, as a factor delimiting policy outcomes. The argument is developed through a focus on the idea of economic efficiency as a key ideological construct underlying market-based policy, and draws on examples from two different market instruments, namely the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, and the Flemish tradable green certificate scheme. I argue that an understanding of the shortcomings of these, and similar, policies requires acknowledgment of the political and socioeconomic power that emanates from the temporal dynamics of fossil fuel capitalism, which are reproduced when economic efficiency becomes the key focus of climate policy.

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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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A Rejoinder to Matthew Paterson and Peter Newell

Cited by 11 publications

References 9 publications

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

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

Dancing to the Rhythms of the Fossil Fuel Landscape: Landscape Inertia and the Temporal Limits to Market-Based Climate Policy

Climate capitalism and the global corporate elite network

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