Elmar Altvater Achim Brunnengräber (Eds.) After cancun

Elmar Altvater Achim Brunnengräber (Eds.) After cancun

VS RESEARCH Energiepolitik und Klimaschutz Herausgegeben von PD Dr. Achim Brunnengräber, TU Dresden PD Dr. Lutz Mez, FU Berlin

Elmar Altvater Achim Brunnengräber (Eds.) After Cancün Climate Governance or Climate Conflicts VS RESEARCH

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Contents Contributors 7 ~~e 9 Elmar Altvater / Achim Brunnengräber With the Marke! Agains! Clima!e Catastrophe - Can Tha! Succeed? - Introduction 11 Peter Newell / Matthew Paterson Climate Capitalism 23 Simon Wolf Climate Politics as Investment. An Analysis of the Discourse on Financing Mitigation and Adaptation 45 Martin Bitter Contradictions of the Commodity Carbon - On the Material and Symbolic Production of a Marke! 71 Edward Nell / Willi Semmler / Armon Rezai Economic Growth and Climate Change: Cap-And-Trade or Emission Tax? 95 Achim Brunnengräber Greening the Economy in the European Union 111 Elmar Altvater The "Tragedy of the Atmosphere" or the Doubling of the Carbon Cycle and the Circulation of Capital 125 Miranda A. Schreurs ABriefHistory ofemission Trading Systems 145

6 Contents Bettina Knothe Searching for Meaning. Intersubjective Dimensions in Environmental Policies 157 Lutz Mez / Achim Brunnengräber On the Way to the Future - Renewable Energies 173

Contributors Elmar Altvater is a Professor emeritus for International Political Economy at the Free University Berlin and a member of the Scientific Council of ATTAC, Germany. E-Mail: altvater@zedat.fu-berlin.de Achim Brunnengräher is a Visiting Professor at the Technische Universität Dresden, Chair for International Politics, and Assoeiated Professor (Privatdozent) in Political Seience at the Free University Berlin. E-Mail: priklima@zedat.fu-berlin.de Martin Bitter is a PbD stodent at the Free University Berlin. He is working on the emergence of a,,european Carbon Economy" from a critical political economy approach. E-Mail: m-bitter@web.de Bettina Knnthe does research and consultancy in the field of sustainability and gender. She also works as a trainer in adult education with focus on gender trainings and teaches yoga. E-Mail: knothe@medeambiente.de Lutz Mez is a Senior Associate Professor at the Departruent of Political and Social Sciences, Free University Berlin, and fonner managing director of the Environmental Policy Research Centre (FFU). E-Mail: lutz.mez@fu-berlin.de Edward Nell is the Malcolm B. Smith Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research in New York. E-Mail: nelle@newschool.edu Peter Newell is currently Professor of Development Stodies at the University of Bast Anglia. From September he will be Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex. E-Mail: P.Newell@uea.ac.uk Matthew Paterson is a Professor of Political Seience at the University of Ottawa. E-Mail: Matthew.Paterson@uottawa.ca Armon Rezai is an assistant professor in environmental economies at the Vienna University ofeconomics and Business (WU). E-Mail: Annon.Rezai@wu.ac.at

8 Contributors Miranda Schreurs is a Professor of Comparative Politics and the Director of the Environmental Policy Research Centre at the Free University Berlin. She is also Vice-Chair of the European Environment and Sustainable Development Advisory Councils (EEAC). E-Mail: miranda.schreurs@fu-berlin.de Willi Semmler is Cbair and Professor at the Department of Economies at the Tbe New School, New York. E-Mail: SemmlerW@newschool.edu Simon Wolf is a Professor of Economies at the New School for Research in New York. E-Mail: simonwolf@gmx.net

Preface Tbis volume is the final publication of a,,jointly Executed Research Project" (JERP) on questions of "Global Environmeotal Governance". It was one of 18 sub-projects witbin tbe Network of Excelleoce: "GARNET - Global Governaoce, Regionalisation aod Regulation: The Role of tbe EU". The Network of Excelleoce was supported by tbe Europeao Union witbin Research Framework Progrannne 6. It was coordinated by Ricbard Higgott, University of Warwick, UK. A number of working confereoces aod doctora! seminars were organised 10 coordinate tbe research activities of tbe scientists from severa! Europeao countries participating in tbe JERP. Tbe subjects raoged from Europeao eovironmental governaoce aod geopolitical aspects of eovironmental governaoce 10 money and finaoce in global environmeotal governaoce. In addition 10 a large number of individual publications tbe present aotbology resulted from tbe workshops aod scieotific discussions. At tbe same time it represents tbe further development and updating of a Germao publication witb the title,,ablasshaodel gegen Klimawandei" (tbe selling of indulgeoces against climate chaoge), published in 2008 by VSA Verlag in Hamburg. No preface is cmnplete witbout expressions ofthaoks: 10 tbe JERP partners, 10 tbe participaots in tbe workshops aod 10 tbe autbors of tbis volume for tbeir constructive collaboration. Bettina Knotbe (Berlin) aod Eleni Tsingou (Warwick) were untiring in tbe organisation aod administration of tbe JERP. Alexaoder Wajnberg aod Christin Linße painstakingly edited tbe texts. Ireoe Wilson provided excelleot support in tbe traoslation aod correction of a number of contributions. We also wish 10 express our tbaoks 10 Richard Higgott aod bis team at tbe University of Warwick, without whose committneot aod cultivation of a cooperative atmosphere GARNET, tbe Network of Excelleoce, would have never com.e to existence. Elmar Altvater and Achim Brunnengräber Berlin, May 2011