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Larry Lohmann briefly sketches ten processes of ignorance-creation facilitated by the new carbon markets, focusing particularly on the Kyoto Protocol and the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme. He queries what the quest for climate justice becomes once it is incorporated into a development or carbon market framework.
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Sketches ten processes of ignorance-creation facilitated by the new carbon markets, focusing particularly on the Kyoto Protocol and the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme
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Lohmann, L. Carbon Trading, Climate Justice and the Production of Ignorance: Ten examples. Development 51, 359–365 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1057/dev.2008.27
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