Marketing and making carbon dumps: Commodification, calculation and counterfactuals in climate change mitigation

Lohmann, Larry

doi:10.1080/09505430500216783

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“…Boyd 2009). With regard to all these aspects this last set of literature reflects closely the sorts of critiques of carbon markets developed by critical social movement activists and their academic allies (Bachram 2004, Lohmann 2005, Smith 2007, Bo¨hm and Dabhi 2009, Gilbertson and Reyes 2009.…”

Section: Situating the Special Issuementioning

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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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Section: Situating the Special Issuementioning

confidence: 99%

The politics of carbon markets: an introduction

Stephan

Paterson

2012

Environmental Politics

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“…Many of them come through a number of the papers included in this special issue. Other work, too, drawing on these discourses has sought to offer technical, accounting, and ethical critique of carbon trading (e.g., Lohmann, 2005Lohmann, , 2006Lohmann, , 2009aLohmann, , 2009bSmith, 2007;Newell, 2008;Knox-Heyes, 2009a, carbon offsetting (Bäckstrand and Lövbrand, 2006;Bumpus and Liverman, 2008;Smith and Rodger, 2009), and emerging codes of conduct and voluntary standards (Lovell et al, 2009). …”

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Climate change accounting research: keeping it interesting and different

Milne

Grubnic

2011

Accounting, Auditing &Amp; Accountability Journal

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PurposeThis paper aims to set out several of the key issues and areas of the inter‐disciplinary field of climate change research based in accounting and accountability, and to introduce the papers that compose this AAAJ special issue.Design/methodology/approachThe paper provides an overview of issues in the science of climate, as well as an eclectic collection of independent and inter‐disciplinary contributions to accounting for climate change. Through additional accounting analysis, and a shadow carbon account, it also illustrates how organisations and nations account for and communicate their greenhouse gas (GHG) footprints and emissions behaviour.FindingsThe research shows that accounting for carbon and other GHG emissions is immensely challenging because of uncertainties in estimation methods. The research also shows the enormity of the challenge associated with reducing those emissions in the near future.Originality/valueThe paper surveys past work on a wide variety of perspectives associated with climate change science, politics and policy, as well as organisational and national emissions and accounting behaviour. It provides an overview of challenges in the area, and seeks to set an agenda for future research that remains interesting and different.

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“…In part, this problematic mirrors wider issues of statistical quantification, itself a major component in various modern bureaucratic infrastructures that have come to render particular social spaces, and not least economic relations, legible and hence governable (see Rose and Miller, 1992). In environmental terms, such issues have been particularly visible in the domain of international climate change science and politics, where seemingly technical questions of where to draw the boundary between 'natural' and 'anthropogenic' greenhouse gas emissions; how to construct national directories of carbon sinks; and how to measure the 'additional' character of emission reductions from carbon trade projects have all been embroiled in prolonged controversy (see Lohmann, 2005;Miller, 2005Miller, , 2007. What this demonstrates is that, in relation to specific infrastructuring practices, issues of standard-setting relate in a direct way to questions of accountability.…”

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