New book: The Economisation of Climate Change – How the G20, the OECD and the IMF Address Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Climate Finance

[Jakob Skovgaard]

Dear colleagues,

A bit of shameless self-promotion: my new book "The Economisation of Climate Change – How the G20, the OECD and the IMF Address Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Climate Finance” is out in Open Access with Cambridge University Press, and can be accessed here:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/economisation-of-climate-change/B0A4F8595A76B316C774850DD646B526#fndtn-information

The book explores how the G20, IMF, and OECD have addressed climate finance and fossil fuel subsidies, what factors have shaped their specific approaches, and the consequences of this economisation of climate change. Due to their central roles in global governance, it is difficult to imagine a transition to a low-carbon, climate resilient world in which they maintain their current power and central roles and do not give serious consideration to climate change. This book shows how they treated climate finance and fossil fuel subsidies as important economic, rather than environmental issues, and that the concrete shape of this economisation differed among the institutions.    

Best regards,

Jakob Skovgaard