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Informationen zum Autor Peter Newell is Professor of International Development at the University of East Anglia. He has worked on climate change as a researcher, consultant, teacher and activist for over 16 years. He has undertaken work for international organisations such UNDP and GEF, provided policy advice to a number of different governments and worked for NGOs such as Climate Network Europe and Friends of the Earth. He is an ESRC Climate Change Leadership Fellow and is the author of Climate for Change (Cambridge University Press, 2000), the first book on the role of non-state actors in global climate politics. Klappentext Explores how we should react to the political dilemmas of adapting the global economy to confront climate change. Zusammenfassung What are the best economic policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change? Climate Capitalism assesses the politics and economics of market-led solutions to climate change. It is important reading for anyone wanting to better understand the challenge! including students on courses in environmental studies and business programmes. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.
