- Title
- Making climate change fit for capitalism: The corporate translation of climate adaptation
- Creator
- Nyberg, Daniel; Wright, Christopher
- Relation
- 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management: Understanding the Inclusive Organization, AOM 2019. Proceedings of 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (Boston, MA 9-13 August 2019)
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2019.90
- Publisher
- Academy of Management (AoM)
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- As the impacts of climate change become more evident and extreme weather events threaten communities and ecosystems, so the role of implicated industries and corporations have come under growing critique. In response to calls for dramatic decarbonization, a growing political response has been to downplay the role of emissions mitigation and emphasize local forms of climate change adaptation. In this paper, we explore the example of corporate responses to the catastrophic coral bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef during 2016/2017 and the process of corporate political activity which encouraged a shift in public debate from climate mitigation to adaptation. Our paper shows how corporations create a hegemonic ‘common sense’ view of politically contested issues and how interests are politicized and enacted in public debate. Through these actions, corporate solutions and self-regulation become accepted as the logical response to the climate crisis. Despite the worsening impact of climate change, corporate responses ensure the maintenance of business as usual.
- Subject
- climate change; extreme weather; ecosystems; emissions; SDG 13; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1454215
- Identifier
- uon:44859
- Language
- eng
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