Mittwoch, 21. Jänner 2026, 16:45 - 17:15 iCal
ie.talks: Etienne Schneider
The Political Economy of Carbon Removal: Asset Revaluation and Uneven Development
Seminarraum SG2
Sensengasse 3/1, 1090 Wien
Antrittsvorlesung, Public Lecture, Vortrag
Presentation by Etienne Schneider (Department of Development Studies) followed by discussion, chaired by Carmen Elsayad (Department of Development Studies)
More than three decades into international climate policy, global greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise. Overshooting the 1.5° C target – and with it, facing catastrophic impacts and the crossing of tipping points in the Earth system – appears increasingly inevitable. In this context, the promise of carbon removal and negative emissions has gained momentum in climate policy: a range of emerging technologies to extract CO2 from the atmosphere and store it durably. In climate models and policy debates, these methods are envisioned to offset residual emissions, and eventually draw down global temperature after an overshoot of the 1.5 or 2° target. Yet, even as large-scale feasibility remains uncertain, these methods generate powerful fictional expectations that reshape the present-day climate politics. This event of our ie.talks outlines a critical political economy perspective on carbon removal, focussing on how such expectations impact on the politics of asset stranding and revaluation, and how they reconfigure questions of uneven development and climate justice.
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Institut für Internationale Entwicklung
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Studienassistenz IE
Department of Development Studies
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studienassistenz.ie@univie.ac.at
Erstellt am Donnerstag, 09. Oktober 2025, 14:17
Letzte Änderung am Dienstag, 13. Jänner 2026, 15:17