Abstract

Green growth, zero emissions, energy transition, ecological modernisation. The climate debate has spawned its own vocabulary, the terms of which convey a structurally conservative agenda: Market-based climate protection instruments, green technology and global management are intended to preserve the vital functions of the atmosphere while enabling unchecked growth. However, this ideal of industrialised societies has caused climate change and is now being reinterpreted as its solution.
In the "Dictionary of the Climate Debate", experts from the social, political and cultural sciences analyse over 40 key terms in the climate discourse that make this utopia seem plausible and without alternative, and show necessary perspectives beyond a neoliberal climate policy.

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