Carbon Markets in a Climate-Changing Capitalism
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:21st Feb '19
Currently unavailable, currently targeted to be due back around 15th April 2025, but could change

Explores what went wrong with global carbon markets and what this means for future climate change policy and capitalism.
The book is for students, researchers, policy makers and campaigners who are interested in climate change and climate policy, and the political economy of capitalism and the environment. It provides an overview and evaluation of global carbon markets, and develops new insights on the commodification of nature.The promise of harnessing market forces to combat climate change has been unsettled by low carbon prices, financial losses, and ongoing controversies in global carbon markets. And yet governments around the world remain committed to market-based solutions to bring down greenhouse gas emissions. This book discusses what went wrong with the marketisation of climate change and what this means for the future of action on climate change. The book explores the co-production of capitalism and climate change by developing new understandings of relationships between the appropriation, commodification and capitalisation of nature. The book reveals contradictions in carbon markets for addressing climate change as a socio-ecological, economic and political crisis, and points towards more targeted and democratic policies to combat climate change. This book will appeal to students, researchers, policy makers and campaigners who are interested in climate change and climate policy, and the political economy of capitalism and the environment.
'… the book frames and analyses problems arising from the marketisation of climate change.' L. A. Reisch and F. C. Doebbe, Journal of Consumer Policy
ISBN: 9781108421737
Dimensions: 255mm x 179mm x 13mm
Weight: 560g
190 pages