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A Tale of Two Copenhagens: Carbon Markets and Climate Governance
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In this paper, the authors show that there remains a strong normative consensus about carbon markets and a deepening set of transnational governance practices, and that these governance practices only partly depend on the interstate negotiations.Abstract:
Assessments of the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009 have tended to see it as a ‘return to realism’ — as the triumph of hard interstate bargaining over institutional or normative development about climate change. This article contests that interpretation by showing how it focuses too closely on the interstate negotiations and neglects the ongoing development of carbon markets as governance practices and systems to deal with climate change. It shows that there remains a strong normative consensus about such markets, and a deepening set of transnational governance practices. These governance practices only partly depend on the interstate negotiations. Thinking about the future of global climate governance needs to start with the complexity of interactions between these transnational governance systems and the interstate negotiations.read more
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Transnational Climate Governance
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the emergence and implications of transnational climate change governance and develop a typology based on the actors involved and their authority, and the primary governance functions performed in order to steer network constituents.
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The Compromise of Liberal Environmentalism
TL;DR: The most significant shift in environmental governance over the last thirty years has been the convergence of environmental and liberal economic norms toward "liberal environmentalism", which predicates environmental protection on the promotion and maintenance of a liberal economic order as mentioned in this paper.
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Conceptualizing Climate Governance Beyond the International Regime
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight the conceptual challenges posed by the increasing involvement of non-nation-state actors in the governance of climate change and explore the potential for drawing from alternative theoretical traditions to address these challenges.
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States on Steroids: The Intergovernmental Odyssey of American Climate Policy
TL;DR: The authors examines the American experience, considering factors that have contributed to a state-centric policy process and using that body of experience to assess competing strategic choices faced by individual states based on their mix of emission trends and policy adoption rates.
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Marketing and making carbon dumps: Commodification, calculation and counterfactuals in climate change mitigation
TL;DR: The climate change crisis is an example of a familiar problem of techno-politics, the overflowing waste dump as discussed by the authors, and for over 150 years, industrial societies have been transferring fossil carbon from under...