Upsetting the Offset: The Political Economy of Carbon Markets

By S. Böhm. 2008

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The context of REDD+ in Indonesia: drivers, agents and institutions. (2012, background): “Offset mechanisms in the CDM and other schemes have proved unable to reduce global emissions (Böhm and Dabhi 2010).”
Climate change and the transition to neoliberal environmental governance (2017, background): “…of market-based approaches to environmental governance, and the heightened in ﬂ uence of private sector actors in decision-making and science processes has also been observed in regimes such as the Basel Convention (Lucier and Gareau, 2015) and the Global Commission on Dams (McCormick, 2006).”
The political economy of the ‘just transition’ (2013, background): “The development of wind, biomass and solar power projects have intensified land pressures, leading to claims that peoples’ land rights are being usurped and affected groups have not adequately been consulted (Böhm and Dabhi 2009).”
Banking Nature? The Spectacular Financialisation of Environmental Conservation (2013, background): “This conceptually enables carbon production as one thing (eg industrial emissions) in one location, to be “offset” against its storage in another, qualitatively different thing (eg tropical forests) in another location (see case studies in Böhm and Dabhi 2009).”