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SUMMARY:Accomplishing Climate Governance: new politics\, new geographies? 
 - Professor Harriet Bulkeley\, Durham University
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CONTACT:Professor Michael Bravo
DESCRIPTION:As the promise of mega multilateralism\, by which the internat
 ional community could design and implement universal agreements to address
  global affairs\, appears to run its course\, a growing body of research a
 nd policy work has sought to understand the multiple means through which c
 limate change is governed. For the most part\, such analyses have been con
 cerned with issues of design – of how and by whom different kinds of arr
 angements and regimes might be established\, the principles that they shou
 ld follow\, and their potential effectiveness. Other research has sought t
 o examine the nature and politics of the forms of climate governance emerg
 ing amongst and in-between existing arrangements – what Hoffmann (2011) 
 terms ‘climate governance experiments’. Here too a focus has been on t
 he institutions\, interests and actors involved\, and the extent to which 
 such initiatives could be at least\, if not more\, effective than national
  policies or international agreements. Relatively less attention has been 
 paid to the how governing climate change is accomplished – the means\, t
 echniques and practices through which it is conducted. In this paper\, I d
 raw on recent research in the UK that has sought to examine the ways in wh
 ich governing climate change is being accomplished in a range of arenas th
 at cut across traditional divides between the state\, private sector and c
 ommunity. The paper examines two sets of issues. First\, how authority\, o
 r authorisation\, is achieved in the absence of what is deemed to be the t
 raditional power of the state or the democratic conferral of legitimacy. S
 econd\, the ways in which techniques of calculation\, commensuration and c
 ommunity are deployed (and contested) in order to govern. It draws on exam
 ples from Tesco\, HSBC\, and Hexham Hydro to examine these issues and thei
 r implications for how we might engage with the new politics and geographi
 es of responding to climate change. 
LOCATION:Small Lecture Theatre\, Department of Geography\, Downing Site
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