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Cheers Mat and Pete Climate Capitalism Global Warming and the Transformation of the Global Economy Peter Newell University of East Anglia Matthew Paterson University of Ottawa Confronting climate change is now understood as a problem of decarbonising' the global economy: ending our dependence on carbon-based fossil fuels. This book explores whether such a transformation is underway, how it might be accelerated, and the complex politics of this process. Given the dominance of global capitalism and free-market ideologies, decarbonisation is dependent on creating carbon markets and engaging powerful actors in the world of business and finance. Climate Capitalism assesses the huge political dilemmas this poses, and the need to challenge the entrenched power of many corporations, the culture of energy use, and global inequalities in energy consumption. Climate Capitalism is essential reading for anyone wanting to better understand the challenge we face. It will also inform a range of student courses in environmental studies, development studies, international relations, and business programmes. Accessible account of how to use market forces to transform a capitalist global economy to reduce the risk of climate change Explores collective political solutions to reducing carbon emissions Confronts the challenges of global justice, corporate power, and capitalist market dominance to potential climate change solutions Contents Preface; Acknowledgements; List of acronyms; 1. Introducing climate capitalism; 2. Histories of climate, histories of capitalism; 3. Climate for business: from threat to opportunity; 4. Mobilising the power of investors; 5. Searching for flexibility, creating a market; 6. Caps, trades, and profits; 7. Buying our way out of trouble; 8. The limits of climate capitalism; 9. Governing the carbon economy; 10. What futures for climate capitalism?; Conclusions; Glossary; Index. http://www.cup.es/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521127288 Praise for Climate Capitalism 'The question of whether and under what terms capitalism can cope with climate change is the most important and challenging of our age. Climate Capitalism addresses this issue in an accessible and timely manner. It is required reading for all.' Sir David King, University of Oxford 'This is the best book yet written on the complex connections between climate change policy, markets and capitalism more generally. Written in an impartial and balanced way, the work should become a standard text in the field.' Lord Tony Giddens, London School of Economics and Political Science, and author of The Politics of Climate Change 'It is now clear that capitalism as usual is not up to tackling the challenge of climate change. Under what conditions might capitalism be transformed to generate growth through low carbon development? Climate Capitalism addresses this most pressing of issues in an informed and accessible way. It is essential reading for governments, businesses and concerned citizens alike.' Rt. Hon Michael Meacher MP, former UK Minister of the Environment Climate change we know is intrinsically linked to the model of economic growth in the world. Neo-liberal economists today accept that climate change is the market's biggest failure. But still the world is looking for small answers to tinker its way out of the problem of growth. It is time we looked for new ways of business unusual¹. This is why this book, Climate Capitalism, is timely. It helps us understand the crisis, but also the opportunity to reinvent growth without pollution. Read it because you must.¹ Sunita Narain, Director of the Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi In commentary on global climate change, the issue of who's views to trust is itself one also now fraught with increasing uncertainty. The views of Newell and Paterson in this helpful book Climate Capitalism are trustworthy and important. They need to be considered widely, seriously and urgently.¹ Aubrey Meyer, Global Commons Institute, London Climate Capitalism by Peter Newell and Matthew Paterson provides a comprehensive review of the market in carbon reductions as well as the challenges that tackling climate change poses to capitalism more generally. While accepting that the model of global capitalism being followed so far in most of the world may need to be changed to a new, more sustainable, paradigm in the longer term, we need to start from where we are and harness the positive forces of capitalism towards solving the climate change problem rather than exacerbating it. It is an excellent book that anyone interested in the economics of climate change should read.¹ Saleemul Huq, Senior Fellow, Climate Change Group, International Institute for Environment and Development Governments, businesses and people the world over are grappling with how to tackle climate change, preferably without sacrificing living standards and lifestyles. Is 'green capitalism' possible or a contradiction in terms? Will emerging forms of governance manage the potential and pitfalls of carbon markets in ways that achieve climate justice? Informed by two decades of climate scholarship, the authors provide an accessible entry to these big policy questions of the day. Backed by careful research, their balanced analysis will help inform not only all those interested in climate regulation but all those who see climate change as a harbinger of broader debates and choices about forms of global governance and the future shape of the global economy.¹ Farhana Yamin, former Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex -- Matthew Paterson École d'études politiques, Université d'Ottawa Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5 tel: +1 613 562-5800 x1716 Web site: http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/pol/eng/profdetails.asp?ID=123 And http://matpaterson.wordpress.com/ Co-editor, Global Environmental Politics http://www.mitpressjournals.org/gep Latest books "Climate capitalism: global warming and the transformation of the global economy" (with Peter Newell) http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521194857 And "Cultural Political Economy" (edited, with Jacqueline Best) http://www.routledgepolitics.com/books/Cultural-Political-Economy-isbn978041 5489324
