The paper explores political economic questions concerning new market creation and sociological interpretations of political contestation on climate change. The author draws on existing case studies of corporate/state networks and social movement activity as well as his observations as a...

Is carbon trading a just policy response to climate change? To answer this question, I begin by proposing necessary conditions for a just emissions trading scheme. It should lower emissions, and distribute burdens fairly. The Australian carbon trading scheme did not meet these conditions. The...

Carbon offsets produced from terrestrial (land-based) emissions reduction projects are a contested frontier of carbon market expansion. Experiments in legislating for and producing terrestrial offsets that come under the title REDD have met heated opposition. However, a political consensus about...