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aimed at reducing growth nor towards energy or development policies. No measures are introduced that increase the production of renewable energies, or contribute to the decentralisation of energy structures. The focus lies instead on the societal use and valorisation of nature, as well as on the enormous innovation potential of the climate change label for the economy. The regulation of climate governance by the market is the result of special interest lobbyism, contributing to the stabilisation of hegemonic capitalist structures and exploiting climate protection for profi ts made in newly created (fi nancial) markets. The empirically evident diffi culties of administering the mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol thus form a veil behind which the consolidation of a political economy of climate change and the economisation of nature proceed apace. This raises the question of whether the international climate regime is in fact the right institution to combat climate change Twelve years after signing the Kyoto agreement (1997) and 17 years after signing the Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992), it should be obvious that the eff ects of these policies are not only incredibly slow, but also that they have not achieved their desired outcomes. Presently, the fi nancial crisis and economic recession make low energy prices, the preservation of jobs and national competitiveness more important than the reduction of emissions caused by production and consumption. This goes for all countries: industrialised, newly industrialised, developing. We can hardly expect upcoming negotiations and conferences on climate change to change this. The concept of a Green New Deal does to some degree respond to criticism of the climate policies we have seen to date, but it remains very vague as far as future measures are concerned. So far, no response to the ever-increasing destructive consumption of resources has been found. The idea of sustainability, celebrated in 1992, has failed (Park et al. 2008). Technological approaches, insurance policies and adjustment measures fi t smoothly into the ambitions for growth and market effi ciency. They follow the same logic that has been responsible for the destructive ecological eff ects of industrialisation. In the end, it is always easier to approve economic stimulus packages that cosmetically modify existing structures than strive for fundamental transformations that challenge a paradigm of growth which is both ecologically unsustainable and socially unjust. Translated from German by Gabriel Kuhn. Contours of Climate Justice. Ideas for shaping new climate and energy politics 33
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