The anti-politics of climate finance: The creation and performativity of the green climate fund

Antipode

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 281-302

  Bracking, Sarah ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate finance; Environmental governance; Financialisation; Performativity

Indexed keywords

CIVIL SOCIETY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FINANCE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; PARADIGM SHIFT; UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84922588558     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: 14678330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/anti.12123     Document Type: Article

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