ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses how the four discourses came into dialogue with and conflicted with each other before, during and after this unprecedented global climate change event. All kinds of actors, including politicians, NGOs and multinational companies prepared to make their mark in the political field at Copenhagen in December 2009. Virtually all statements related to climate politics that are made around the world, as well as in Sweden, during the second half of 2009 were, in one way or another, connected to the UN conference in Copenhagen. The Industrial Fatalist discourse dominated in Sweden before, during and after Copenhagen. The big difference was that Climate Sceptics claimed that free trade and market mechanisms benefited Swedish economic interests, whereas the Green Keynesianism and Eco-socialist discourses assumed that the unequal exchange of world markets was a fundamental reason for the unfair global distribution of resources.
