Crisis Capitalism and Climate Finance: The Framing, Monetizing, and Orchestration of Resilience-Amidst-Crisis
Abstract: Throughout the development sector there has been a pronounced call for new funding mechanisms to address the climate crisis, and much of this is focused on attracting private sources of capital to fund 'bankable' projects in climate-vulnerable cities throughout the world. Enacted amidst a 21st century landscape of interlocking financial, epidemiological, and ecological crises, this call features an urgent narrative of 'resilience-amidst-crisis' that promotes large-scale, profitable investments as a form of green growth through debt-financing. The political orchestration and administration of new funding mechanisms (particularly green bonds and sustainable bonds) requires a new form of climate governance focused on the channeling of enormous sums of private capital through an assemblage of intermediaries toward profitable climate projects. This article interrogates this trend in climate finance, revealing that the framing, monetization, and orchestration of climate projects is depen
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                Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
 
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                Englisch
 
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 begutachtet (peer reviewed)
 In: Politics and Governance ; 9 (2021) 2 ; 51-63
 
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                Wirtschaft
 
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                Mannheim
 
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                SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
 
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                2021
 
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                Long, Joshua
 
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                        10.17645/pag.v9i2.3739
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                        urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023041407594852837253
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                        Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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- Long, Joshua
- SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
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- 2021
 
        
     
        
    