ABSTRACT

The extensions are underpinned by the challenge of theorising different emerging climate change economies. The premise is that precise and timely provision of climate services will aid countries, regions, and communities in coping with the vagaries of climate change, by providing them with projections and predictions to incorporate into planning and decision-making. Although there is limited explicit marketisation, economisation has political effects on the actions allowed in the name of climate governance. Carbon capture and storage/sequestration technology has emerged over the last two decades as a possible contributor to climate change mitigation efforts. The commodification of greenhouse gas carbon-cycling capacity and the creation of carbon markets has been one of the most researched and discussed aspects of the political economy of climate change. Performativity approaches give us the conceptual tools to open up an actually existing market, and to see how it comes to operate inside.