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The Global Political Ecology of the Clean Development Mechanism

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  • Peter Newell

    (Peter Newell is Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex.)

  • Adam Bumpus

    (Adam Bumpus is a Lecturer in Geography and the Environment at the University of Melbourne, and an Associate Fellow at ISIS, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, Canada.)

Abstract

This article explores the ways in which the “global” governance of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) intersects with the “local” politics of resource regimes that are enrolled in carbon markets through the production and trade in Certified Emissions Reductions (CERs). It shows how political structures and decision-making procedures set up at the international level to govern the acquisition of CERs through the Kyoto Protocol's CDM interact with and transform national and local level political ecologies in host countries where very different governance structures, political networks, and state-market relations operate. It draws on literature within political ecology and field work in Argentina and Honduras to illustrate and understand the politics of translation that occur when the social and environmental consequences of decisions made within global governance mechanisms, such as the CDM, are followed through to particular sites in the global political economy. It also shows how the outcomes in those sites in turn influence the global politics of the CDM. © 2012 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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  • Peter Newell & Adam Bumpus, 2012. "The Global Political Ecology of the Clean Development Mechanism," Global Environmental Politics, MIT Press, vol. 12(4), pages 49-67, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:tpr:glenvp:v:12:y:2012:i:4:p:49-67
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    4. Coraline Goron & Cyril Cassisa, 2017. "Regulatory Institutions and Market-Based Climate Policy in China," Global Environmental Politics, MIT Press, vol. 17(1), pages 99-120, February.
    5. Franco, Jennifer C. & Borras, Saturnino M., 2019. "Grey areas in green grabbing: subtle and indirect interconnections between climate change politics and land grabs and their implications for research," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 84(C), pages 192-199.
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    Keywords

    Clean Development Mechanism; carbon markets; Certified Emissions Reductions; Argentina; Honduras;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q57 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Ecological Economics

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