Fixing' the climate crisis

Capital, states, and carbon offsetting in India

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4772750
AutoresGareth Bryant (0000-0002-7240-4026, The University of Sydney, autor correspondente), Siddhartha Dabhi (Ecology, Environment and Sustainable Development at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Guwahati 781 001, India, autor correspondente), Steffen Böhm (0000-0002-0888-1362, Essex Sustainability Institute, Essex Business School, University of Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ, England, autor correspondente)
Ano2015
Volume47
Fascículo10
Páginas2047-2063
Data de publicação2015-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEnvironment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/a130213p
OpenAlexW2015881833
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas26
Referências citadas31

The paper analyzes dynamics of accumulation and displacement in the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). It combines the theoretical work of David Harvey and James O'Connor with a case study of the Gujarat Fluorochemicals Limited HFC-23 destruction project in Gujarat, India. The framework is used to connect the factors driving opportunities for capital accumulation in the CDM market with the causes of social and ecological dislocation at the local project level. We argue that the CDM is a spatial fix to the ecological crisis of climate change which secures conditions of production for fossil fuel industries and promotes new sites of accumulation for other companies. The political-economic 'fix' is dependent on 'fixing' a global sociospatial divide between developed and developing countries down to 'fixed' projects at the local level. This spatial fix facilitates a displacement of the costs of responding to the climate crisis from North to South

Business · Clean Development Mechanism · Climate change · Development economics · Economic geography · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Geography · Natural resource economics · Political science · Politics · Climate Change Policy and Economics · Engineering · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance · Water Governance and Infrastructure · Ecology