Event Date: January 15, 2009 - 12:00 pm
Location: room 4004, 120 University Private,Social Sciences Building,

A talk by Matthew Paterson, Professor, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa.

Registration is not required. This event will be in French and English.

Markets have become the central means through which climate change governance operates. This is the case in both interstate governance – the Kyoto Protocol in particular – and private governance, a whole host of private-sector mechanisms designed to reduce carbon emissions. Most analyses of new forms of global governance focus on the shift towards “privatized” governance. This presentation will focus on the interactions between these two sorts of governance.

Matthew Paterson is the author of Automobile Politics: Ecology and Cultural Political Economy (2007), Understanding Global Environmental Politics: Domination, Accumulation, Resistance (2000), Energy Exporters and Climate Change (with Peter Kassler, 1997) and Global Warming and Global Politics (1996).

This event is part of the CIPS Study Group on Global Governance.