Emissions trading at Kyoto: from EU resistance to Union innovation

Damro, Chad; Méndez, Pilar Luaces

doi:10.1080/09644010412331308194

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“…Interestingly, however, there has been surprisingly little published within the pages of Environmental Politics. All we have is two articles on the Kyoto mechanisms (Schmitz andMichaelowa 2005, Shin 2010), one on the EU ETS (Damro and Luaces Me´ndez 2003), one on the role of carbon trading in the 2010 Australian election (Rootes 2011), and one on intergenerational justice implications of cap and trade systems (Schuppert 2011). Beyond that, there are occasional mentions in the context of more general articles on the Kyoto Protocol, European climate policy, or similar.…”

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The politics of carbon markets: an introduction

Stephan

Paterson

2012

Environmental Politics

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This overview of the existing political analysis of carbon markets identifies three broad strands in the literature. The first is concerned with the processes by which particular carbon market schemes are established. The second focuses on the role of particular actors in the creation of carbon markets. The third strand assesses carbon markets on efficiency, legitimacy or justice grounds. This existing literature is contrasted with the framework developed by the contributions to this volume. Broadly drawing on constructivist and poststructuralist approaches, the carbon economy is deconstructed, its history scrutinised and the practices and technologies that have been used to bring these markets into being are highlighted. Thus it is demonstrated that politics is not limited to the policy process leading up to the decision to implement an emissions trading scheme or offset mechanism, but is also present in the forms of knowledge claims that underpin these markets, as well as the various daily practices that constitute them.

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“…Interestingly, while there were some early mentions of carbon markets as instances of NEPI (e.g. Damro and Luaces Me´ndez 2003), this frame has not been used within most of the literature on such markets.…”

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The politics of carbon markets: an introduction

Stephan

Paterson

2012

Environmental Politics

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“…Its development countered both the European Commission's intellectual convictions and the interests of industrial stakeholders (Newel and Paterson 1996;Wettestad 2005). Despite abundant scholarly work in multiple disciplines (Braun 2009;Cass 2005;Christiansen and Wettestad 2003;Damro and Mendez 2003), the making of the EU-ETS still represents a conundrum yet to be explained.…”

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“…Drawing on a rich set of archival data and interviews, we reconstitute the original strategy deployed by the electricity sector to implement a carbon market in Europe. During the Kyoto Protocol, the European Commission opposed emissions trading (Cass 2005;Convery 2009;Damro and Mendez 2003;Skjaerseth and Wettestad 2008;Wettestad 2005). As for industrial companies, they pleaded against any measure involving a price on carbon Paterson 1996, 1998).…”

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Policymaking as collective bricolage: the role of the electricity sector in the making of the European carbon market

Cartel¹,

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Aggeri³

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Power, Policy and Profit

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“…Liverman (2008) and Damro and Mendez (2003) have highlighted the fact that carbon markets were originally a US proposal that was subsequently adopted by the EU as the policy driver for climate change even when the US failed to ratify the Kyoto agreement. When we speak of carbon economies today it is important to remember that these were not envisaged solely in market-based terms in early climate change discussions.…”

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Theorizing the Carbon Economy: Introduction to the Special Issue

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Theorizing the carbon economy: introduction to the special issue The term`carbon economy' often has an adjective placed nearby: the`new' carbon economy, the`low' carbon economy, the carbon`neutral' economy, the`zero' carbon economy, or can be simply thought of as the shorthand for the political economy of carbon. Such a discursive move marks a shift in focus from 20th-century carbon-based industry and society to aspirational movements in the new millennium. Brown and Corbera have focused on the novel directions in the`new' carbon economy in describing it as one that``represents the emerging trade in carbon emissions, along with the series of market-based policy instruments designed to reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through the creation of markets for carbon such as the flexibility mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol'' (2003, page 41). Through a variety of economic, political, ecological, and cultural twists and turns, new actors are stepping in to take advantage of these mechanisms and broker deals in`voluntary' carbon reductions. Castree ( 2006) has cautioned that there are many dimensions to this emerging (new/low/zero)`carbon economy' rather than a shift denoting an overarching organizing force.The carbon economy essentially and necessarily props up and connects the workings of our everyday lives to the national and global-level political economic architectures organizing contemporary human societies. The industrial revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries produced carbon-based industry initiatives that now intervene in just about all aspects of human life, from energy generation for household activities and the ways to get from place to place, to the conduct of businesses and the ways humans grow and consume food. Concurrently, detection and attribution research has found that these carbon-based practices have contributed to anthropogenic climate change (Allen et al, 2000;Karl and Trenberth, 2003;Tett et al 1999), thus opening a new moment in time some have called`the Anthropocene Era' (Crutzen, 2002). In other words, carbon-based activities dominate economies and societies in ways not seen before in human history. Ironically perhaps, it is this carbon economy``intertwining evolution with the Earth's inanimate forces, air, sea, rocköand human infrastructure'' that also threatens the very industries and societies it has enabled (Roston, 2008, page 1). Woven into these developments are the critical decisions made at the human^environment interface, referred to by Dalby as`Anthropocene geopolitics' (2007).Bailey (2007) and Bumpus and Liverman (2008) have also pointed out that the emerging institutions and spaces of carbon reductionsöfrom flexible mechanisms (Clean Development Mechanism, Joint Implementation, International Emissions Trading) in the compliance market, to carbon offsets in the voluntary marketöcontribute to a range of possible and hotly contested futures in the carbon economy. From the pivot of market-based measures, there are competing visions of what architectures and institutions i...

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Emissions trading at Kyoto: from EU resistance to Union innovation

Cited by 91 publications

References 29 publications

The politics of carbon markets: an introduction

The politics of carbon markets: an introduction

Policymaking as collective bricolage: the role of the electricity sector in the making of the European carbon market

Theorizing the Carbon Economy: Introduction to the Special Issue

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