Beyond the critique of carbon markets : The real utopia of a democratic Climate Protection Agency

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Title
Beyond the critique of carbon markets : The real utopia of a democratic Climate Protection Agency
Journal
Geoforum
Author(s)
Felli Romain
ISSN
0016-7185
Publication state
Published
Issued date
03/2018
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Pages
1-8
Language
english
Abstract
This paper discusses the possibility to go beyond the critique of carbon markets by offering an alternative, democratic, model for allocating greenhouse gas emissions rights, rather than one based on the ability to pay. Taking stock of the substantial critique that have been made of markets for allocating such rights, it seeks to offer a non-market based, yet realist, mechanism. This non-market mechanism is grounded in the literature on democratic economic planning as applied to environmental questions. It delineates the proposition for a Climate Protection Agency through which competing interests and visions could be represented – and transformed – in the process of allocating limited rights. This alternative model is offered in the spirit of “real utopias”. Discussions of the desirability, viability, and achievability of the model are made by way of comparison with a similar – but actually existing – model, namely the distribution of land-use rights in Switzerland.
Keywords
Economic democracy, Deliberative democracy, Economic planning, Urban planning, Carbon markets, Real utopias
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