1st Edition
Pricing Carbon in Australia Contestation, the State and Market Failure
By Rebecca Pearse
Copyright 2018
156 Pages
17 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
170 Pages
17 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
170 Pages
17 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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In the mid-2000s it seemed that the global carbon market would take off and spark the worldwide transition to a profitable low carbon economy. A decade on, the experiment in carbon trading is failing. Carbon market schemes have been plagued by problems and resistance to carbon pricing has come from the political Left and Right. In the Australian case, a national emissions trading scheme (ETS) was... Read more
- Introduction
- Contestation and the political economy of carbon pricing
- Historical dimensions of the market turn
- Carbon pricing in practice
- Technocracy and the Copenhagen moment
- Conservative populism and carbon contradictions
- Beyond Paris, towards energy justice
- Conclusion
Biography
Rebecca Pearse is a lecturer in the Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney, Australia.
