The Corner House – NEW Books on Climate Politics

Available FREE on The Corner House website

Several new publications have been posted in the climate section on The Corner House website:
www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/subject/climate

Commodity Fetishism in Climate Science and Policy

On the lighter side, an illustrated Corner House powerpoint presentation uncovers the fetishism that pervades today’s mainstream debate about climate change

(4 MB)
http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/pdf/document/Fetishism.pdf

Climate Change and ‘Overpopulation
This short article, a version of which was just published in January’s New Internationalist, argues that population numbers offer no useful pointers toward policies that should be adopted to tackle climate change.
http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/pdf/document/ClimatePop.pdf

Carbon Markets: The Policy Reality
This brief contribution to the journal Global Social Policy outlines why today’s dominant ’solution’ to climate change is not helping to overcome fossil fuel dependence.
http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/pdf/document/GSPCarbonMarkets.pdf

In addition, two translations of previous Corner House articles on climate
politics have just been posted:

Commerce du carbone, justice et ignorance
The French translation by Marie Koczorowski of ‘Carbon Trading, Climate Justice and the Production of Ignorance’ (http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/pdf/document/IgnoranceFinal.pdf) has been published in Ecologie et Politique and is available (310 kB)at:

http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/pdf/document/IgnoranceFrench.pdf.pdf

Kohlenstoffmärkte und Finanzmärkte: Variationen über Polanyi
An abridged German language version by Oliver Walkenhorst of ‘Uncertainty Markets and Carbon Markets’
(http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/pdf/document/NPE2high.pdf) — a Corner House article forthcoming in the journal New Political Economy — has been published in the journal Das Argument.

Get it at:
http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/pdf/document/UncertaintyGerman.pdf

We hope you find them interesting and useful and always welcome any comments and feedback.

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