Climate Politics as Investment [electronic resource] : From Reducing Emissions to Building Low-carbon Economies /
Wolf, Simon.author.
Simon Wolf describes how the growing awareness for the economic consequences of climate change and the economic opportunities of climate protection has led to changes in the rationality of governing climate change, from reducing emissions to building low-carbon economies. One crucial strategy for governments in orchestrating the transformation to cleaner economies is to enable low-carbon investment. The author therefore takes a critical look at how climate governance is reframed as an economic and investment challenge in recent years, and reveals some of the blind spots of focusing on the economic and investment opportunities related to climate protection.   Contents ·        Theory: Power/Knowledge ·        Economic rationality in climate governance ·        Making investments an object of government ·Governing investment for climate protection ·Markets, investment and the state   Target Groups ·        Researchers and students from the social sciences and environmental studies ·        Practicioners in the field of climate politics   The Author Dr. Simon Wolf works as Department Head Economy and Finance at Heinrich Böll Foundation in Berlin.
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""Acknowledgements""; ""Table of contents""; ""Acronyms""; ""1 Introduction""; ""1.1 Towards a new rationality in climate governance""; ""1.1.1 Climate change as economic challenge""; ""1.1.2 The emergence of the climate investment discourse""; ""1.1.3 And a return of the state""; ""1.2 The research project""; ""1.2.1 State of research: Stern and investment for climate protection""; ""1.2.2 A discourse perspective on the economics of climate change""; ""1.2.3 Governmentality and climate change""; ""1.2.4 Operationalisation, research strategy, and structure of the book""
""2 Theory: Power/Knowledge""""2.1 Epistemology: Archaeology, Genealogy, Power""; ""2.1.1 Archaeology of discourse""; ""2.1.2 Genealogy, the question of power, and power-knowledge""; ""2.1.3 Government as power""; ""2.2 The analytics of government and the role of the state""; ""2.2.1 The state as effect of governmental rationality""; ""2.2.2 Emergence and change of governmental rationalities""; ""2.2.3 Analysing discourse from (governmental) practices""; ""2.3 Operationalisation""; ""2.3.1 Ontology, epistemology, methodology""; ""2.3.2 Research process and methods""
""3 Economic rationality in climate governance""""3.1 The old rationality of governing climate change""; ""3.1.1 A short history of carbon markets in climate governance""; ""3.1.2 Neoliberal rationality: Markets and flexibility""; ""3.2 Stern and the economics of climate change: changing perspectives""; ""3.2.1 Reframing climate change as an economic problem""; ""3.2.2 Turning climate governance into an economic challenge""; ""3.2.3 The limits to economic rationalisation""; ""3.3 After Stern: towards a new rationality in climate governance""; ""4 Making investments an object of government""
""4.1 Climate finance: supporting north-south investment flows""""4.1.1 The early days of adaptation and finance""; ""4.1.2 The new importance of climate finance""; ""4.1.3 Climate finance as investment""; ""4.2 Low-carbon strategies: Investing in economic future""; ""4.2.1 A Green New Deal""; ""4.2.2 The low-carbon growth narrative""; ""4.2.3 Low-carbon growth and development: country perspectives""; ""4.2.4 Going low-carbon: towards economic rationality""; ""4.3 The finance sector in climate change governance""; ""4.3.1 Renewable energy governance: Bringing in the finance sector""
""4.3.2 Understanding investor behaviour""""4.4 Investment for climate protection: visibilities and invisibilities""; ""5 Governing investment for climate protection""; ""5.1 Public Finance Mechanisms: incentivising private investment""; ""5.1.1 Investment for low-carbon growth: UK Green Investment Bank""; ""5.1.2 PFMs for clean investment in developing countries""; ""5.1.3 The other side of PFMs: raising public finance""; ""5.2 Investment and the carbon market""; ""5.2.1 Sensing investment opportunities""; ""5.2.2 Governing carbon market investment""
""5.2.3 Enhancing the effectiveness of carbon trading""
Simon Wolf describes how the growing awareness for the economic consequences of climate change and the economic opportunities of climate protection has led to changes in the rationality of governing climate change, from reducing emissions to building low-carbon economies. One crucial strategy for governments in orchestrating the transformation to cleaner economies is to enable low-carbon investment. The author therefore takes a critical look at how climate governance is reframed as an economic and investment challenge in recent years, and reveals some of the blind spots of focusing on the economic and investment opportunities related to climate protection.   Contents ·        Theory: Power/Knowledge ·        Economic rationality in climate governance ·        Making investments an object of government ·Governing investment for climate protection ·Markets, investment and the state   Target Groups ·        Researchers and students from the social sciences and environmental studies ·        Practicioners in the field of climate politics   The Author Dr. Simon Wolf works as Department Head Economy and Finance at Heinrich Böll Foundation in Berlin.
Political science.
Political Science.