Are We Anywhere? Carbon, Capital and COP-15
Keskiviikkona 25. helmikuuta 2009Tämä Pascal Stevenin teksti on julkaistu alunperin SHIFT-lehdessä nro 5.
Everything is rational in capitalism, except capital or capitalism itself …the system is demented, yet it works very well at the same time”.
(Felix Guattarri, 1995)
“We mean business when we talk about climate change”.
(Jose Manuel Barroso, European commission president)
One of the biggest political spectacles of the coming year will be held in Copenhagen, (COP-15) in December. There, delegates from 170 countries, corporate lobbyists and NGO representatives will come together under the banner of the United Nations framework convention on climate change (UNFCC) in an attempt to solve the problem of climate change via the implementation of a global, market based, carbon cap and trade scheme. The deal brokered here will replace the Kyoto treaty which will expire in 2012. The COP-15 will be a core global governance mechanism through which climate change mitigation will be implemented. The deal that emerges from this has the potential to affect the entire socio-ecological field.
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