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Counting Carbon: The Politics of Carbon Footprints and Climate Governance from the Individual to the Global

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  • James Morton Turner

    (James Morton Turner is an associate professor of environmental studies at Wellesley College.)

Abstract
This article considers carbon footprints as a form of climate governance. Drawing on science studies to consider the contingent nature of calculative devices and governmentality studies to examine the intrinsic relationship between how problems are framed and remedied, this article advances two arguments. First, it argues that efforts to define and deploy carbon footprints contributed to a conceptual shift in emissions accounting, from a narrower metric focused on emissions from fossil fuel and electricity use—Carbon Footprint 1.0—to a more expansive metric that includes emissions embodied in consumption and trade—Carbon Footprint 2.0. Second, this article argues that these approaches to carbon footprints at the individual level have intersected with broader discussions about allocating emissions responsibilities and examining mitigation strategies at the national and international levels, offering alternative grounds for assigning responsibility for climate-change mitigation and expanding the range of policy options available for addressing emissions. © 2014 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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  • James Morton Turner, 2014. "Counting Carbon: The Politics of Carbon Footprints and Climate Governance from the Individual to the Global," Global Environmental Politics, MIT Press, vol. 14(1), pages 59-78, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:tpr:glenvp:v:14:y:2014:i:1:p:59-78
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    Cited by:

    1. Kathryn Harrison, 2015. "International Carbon Trade and Domestic Climate Politics," Global Environmental Politics, MIT Press, vol. 15(3), pages 27-48, August.
    2. Naef, Alain, 2024. "The impossible love of fossil fuel companies for carbon taxes," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 217(C).
    3. Matthew Schneider-Mayerson & Kit Ling Leong, 2020. "Eco-reproductive concerns in the age of climate change," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 163(2), pages 1007-1023, November.
    4. Ramos-Toro, Diego, 2017. "Social Cohesion and Carbon Emissions," MPRA Paper 82396, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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    Keywords

    carbon footprints; climate governance; emissions;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
    • Q58 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Government Policy

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