Carbon

Ingmar Lippert has been invited to give a lecture on carbon quantification and carbon markets as part of Tembusu College's Senior Module Climate Change.

Drawing on his ethnographic work in a Fortune 50 company on carbon accounting, he will provide an understanding of how hegemonic carbon policy approaches are grounded in the fundamental assumption that carbon emissions can be quantified.

Since June 2011, available by Springer Publishers, is our recent collection of studies all addressing the limits to managing the environment1. We employ five case studies to engage with several dimensions of how environmental management practice and discourse is constrained.

• 1. Lippert, Ingmar. Limits to Managing the Environment In Implementing Environmental and Resource Management, Edited by M. Schmidt, V. Onyango and D. Palekhov. Heidelberg: Springer, 2011.

Ingmar Lippert has been invited by Lancaster University's Centre for Science Studies to present his work on agents of ecological modernisation and how they achieve order within the performance of corporate carbon emissions.1

• 1. Lippert, Ingmar. "Ordering Carbon Emissions: Distributed Agency in Adjusting Data." In Paper presented at ``Centre for Science Studies and Centre for the Study of Environmental Change Seminar Series `Mixtures'''. Lancaster, 2011.

Organised by Anita Engels and Benjamin Stephan (both at University of Hamburg) as well as Steffen Böhm (University of Essex) mid November a Workshop will take place at the Klima Campus (Hamburg), engaging with the emerging phenomena of carbon markets.

Two members of our group, Anup Sam Ninan1 (cancelled) and Ingmar Lippert2 will give papers at this workshop.

• 1. Ninan, Anup Sam. "Material Practices in Organizing Emissions Reductions - The Case of Two CDM Projects in India." In Carbon markets and their future: A Social Science Perspective. Hamburg, Germany, Submitted.
• 2. Lippert, Ingmar. "Low Carbon Emissions?: Investigating Power Relations Inscribed in Carbon Emissions." In Carbon markets and their future: A Social Science Perspective. Hamburg, Germany, 2010.

(updated 31/7/2011)

I am spending two weeks focussing on writing up short accessible articles on two topics:

• Greenwashing: for the upcoming Encyclopedia of Green Culture,
• Carbon Dioxiode: for the upcoming Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste.