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Enter the Green New Deal, which opens up much needed political space for debate over the climate questions that market-based policy can’t answer.

My new book, Carbon Markets in a Climate-Changing Capitalism, published by Cambridge University Press, offers a framework to evaluate competing climate policy approaches. The premise is that debates over the direction of climate policy must consider how the policy operates within, and potentially reshapes, ‘climate-changing capitalism’.

The workshop laid open the entanglements of the socio-political and socio-economic relations, pointing out Australia’s, Germany’s and India’s potentials and problems.

The political debate on climate change is not going to go away. Indeed, it is becoming much sharper.

It is still relatively early days in the research process for the Decarbonisation project – we’ve chosen the regions of interest, we’re harmonising methodological approaches, we’ve done some scoping visits to get a broad understanding of the issues and terrain.