The politics of anticipation: the IPCC and the negative emissions technologies experience

作者：Silke Beck, Martin Mahony · 发表于：Global Sustainability · 年份：2018 · DOI：10.1017/sus.2018.7 · 被引用次数：163 · 研究领域：Climate Change Policy and Economics、Climate Change and Geoengineering、Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy

Non-technical summary In the post-Paris political landscape, the relationship between science and politics is changing. We discuss what this means for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), using recent controversies over negative emissions technologies (NETs) as a window into the fraught politics of producing policy-relevant pathways and scenarios. We suggest that pathways and scenarios have a ‘world-making’ power, potentially shaping the world in their own image and creating new political realities. Assessment bodies like the IPCC need to reflect on this power, and the implications of changing political contexts, in new ways.