ENABLING PERFORMATIVITY IN 'SKUNK LABS': THE UNTOLD STORY OF CARBON MARKETS DESIGN

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Climate change has become in 20 years one of the greatest economic, environmental and social challenges of our modern society. A wide variety of organizations – NGOs, governments, business, international bodies, local communities, research think tanks – are working together to design and implement a low carbon society. In this particularly uncertain context, characterized by distributed, lacunar, messy and sometimes contradictory scientific knowledge, the actors fail to converge on a common project regarding the architecture of a low carbon society. Projects and visions vary among actors and over time. Nevertheless, it is commonly admitted among experts and economists that a carbon price that would be stable, predictable and fair could provide the long term coordination that is needed to drive the implementation of a low carbon society. "A price of carbon would solve any problem" said a French expert in a recent interview . A ‘right' price of carbon would diffuse in the economy and pro

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