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Climate capitalism : global warming and the transformation of the global economy /
"Confronting climate change is now understood as a problem of 'decarbonising' the global economy: ending our dependence on carbon-based fossil fuels. This book explores whether such a transformation is underway, how it might be accelerated, and the complex politics of this process. Gi...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
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| Online Access: | http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1007/2010012380-b.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1007/2010012380-d.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1007/2010012380-t.html http://assets.cambridge.org/97805211/94853/cover/9780521194853.jpg |
Table of Contents:
- Introducing climate capitalism
- Histories of climate, histories of capitalism
- Climate for business : from threat to opportunity
- Mobilising the power of investors
- Searching for flexibility, creating a market
- Caps, trades, and profits
- Buying our way out of trouble
- The limits of climate capitalism
- Governing the carbon economy
- What futures for climate capitalism?.