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The world is facing several serious challenges at the close of the fossil and nuclear energy regime: the limited resources of cheap conventional oil can only be surmounted by tapping unconventional oil reserves, e.g. deep sea oil. The explosion of the oil platform Deepwater Horizon in 2010 and the subsequent oil spill caused enormous damage, which even a year later cannot be fully estimated. Another even more important threat emanating from the fossil and nuclear energy regime has been brought to our attention by the Fukushima disaster. Last but not least, the problem of climate change caused by an increase in greenhouse gas emissions is looming, despite the fact that the international community has agreed on a considerable reduction of these emissions. Is this poor result of the Kyoto Protocol and the failure of successive climate conferences the consequence of a preference for the use of market-based instruments? The majority of climate scientists, economists, and politicians believe in the efficiency of "cap-and-trade" regulations. They even conceive them as a constituent ingredient of a "Green New Deal" or "Global Green Recovery". The contributions in this volume provide a critical examination of the theoretical foundations, the political implications, and the empirical experiences of the application of market mechanisms and financial instruments to climate policy.
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With articles by Elmar Altvater, Achim Brunnengräber, Peter Newell, Matthew Paterson, Simon Wolf, Martin Bitter, Edward Nell, Willi Semmler, Armon Rezai, Miranda Schreurs, Bettina Knothe, Lutz Mez
About the author
Elmar Altvater, geb. 1938 in Kamen, ist Professor i.R. für Politikwissenschaften an der Freien Universität Berlin und Mitglied des wissenschaftlichen Beirats von Attac.
Dr. Achim Brunnengräber, Politikwissenschaftler, ist Privatdozent am Otto-Suhr-Institut der Freien Universität Berlin. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind die internationale Umwelt-, Klima- und Energiepolitik sowie soziale Fragen von Vulnerabilität und Anpassung.
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"Die Autoren bieten insgesamt einen guten Überblick über Ansätze und Ergebnisse der einzelnen Teilprojekte des gemeinsamen Forschungsverbundes." Portal für Politikwissenschaft (www.pw-portal.de), 10.05.2012
