Racial capitalism's role in mitigation deterrence from carbon removal
Buck, Holly Jean ; Markusson, Nils and Carton, Wim LU
(2024)
In Environmental Science and Policy
160.
- Abstract
Two major sociopolitical challenges loom over the development of carbon removal. One is mitigation deterrence: that research and deployment of carbon removal could delay mitigation efforts. The other is environmental and climate justice — in particular that carbon removal will be developed in ways that further environmental racism, e.g. for the benefit of interests and groups in the global North while harming overburdened communities of color. A variety of policy measures have been proposed to deal with these challenges, from developing separate targets for emissions and removals to social safeguarding principles and standards. Here, we suggest that such measures in and of themselves are unlikely to be sufficient. Policy recommendations... (More)
Two major sociopolitical challenges loom over the development of carbon removal. One is mitigation deterrence: that research and deployment of carbon removal could delay mitigation efforts. The other is environmental and climate justice — in particular that carbon removal will be developed in ways that further environmental racism, e.g. for the benefit of interests and groups in the global North while harming overburdened communities of color. A variety of policy measures have been proposed to deal with these challenges, from developing separate targets for emissions and removals to social safeguarding principles and standards. Here, we suggest that such measures in and of themselves are unlikely to be sufficient. Policy recommendations and scholarship on mitigation deterrence need to become more attentive to how racial capitalism helps form the conditions for mitigation deterrence. We describe how racial capitalism sets up mitigation deterrence, and how mitigation deterrence in turn goes on to perpetuate racial capitalism. We conclude by suggesting a few ways in which incorporating understandings of racial capitalism can help policymakers, carbon removal developers and investors make decisions that limit the risks of mitigation deterrence and racial injustice.
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- author
- Buck, Holly Jean
; Markusson, Nils
and Carton, Wim
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2024-10
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Carbon dioxide removal, Climate delay, Mitigation deterrence, Race, Racial capitalism
- in
- Environmental Science and Policy
- volume
- 160
- article number
- 103865
- publisher
- Elsevier
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85201636848
- ISSN
- 1462-9011
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103865
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 0e9c2463-1b66-41b8-b585-82eaae4dfda7
- date added to LUP
- 2024-10-30 14:26:59
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- 2025-04-04 14:50:30
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