Private agri-food governance and greenhouse gas abatement: Constructing a corporate carbon economy |
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| Institution: | 1. Institut für Kernphysik, KIT – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany;2. Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo, Inst. Física y Matemáticas, Morelia, Mexico;3. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy;4. Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik, KIT – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany;5. Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania;6. Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino, INAF Torino, Italy;7. Universidade São Paulo, Instituto de Fîsica de São Carlos, Brazil;8. Fachbereich Physik, Universität Wuppertal, Germany;9. Department of Physics, Siegen University, Germany;10. Department of Astrophysics, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands;11. National Centre for Nuclear Research, Department of Astrophysics, ?ód?, Poland;12. Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS), Frankfurt am Main, Germany;13. Department of Physics, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania;1. Moody College of Communication, University of Texas at Austin, 2504 Whitis Ave. Stop A0800, Austin, TX 78712-1067, United States;2. College of Communications and Information, Florida State University, 4100 University Center, Building C, Tallahassee, FL 32306-2651, United States;1. Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany;2. Instituto de Física y Matemáticas, Universidad Michoacana, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico;3. ASTRON, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands;4. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Torino, Torino, Italy;5. Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany;6. Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany;7. National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania;8. Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino, INAF Torino, Torino, Italy;9. Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo, São Carlos, Brazil;10. Department of Astrophysics, Radboud University Nijmegen, AJ Nijmegen, The Netherlands;11. Fachbereich C, Physik, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany;12. Institut für Prozessdatenverarbeitung und Elektronik, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany;13. Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, Universität Siegen, Siegen, Germany;14. Institute for Space Sciences, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania;15. Department of Astrophysics, National Centre for Nuclear Research, ?ód?, Poland;p. Studsvik Scandpower GmbH, Hamburg, Germany;q. Department of Physics, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania |
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| Abstract: | Private sector actors are playing an increasingly significant role in the definition and governance of ‘sustainable’ agri-food practices. Yet, to date little attention has been paid by social scientists to how greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are addressed as part of private agri-food governance arrangements. This paper examines how private actors within agri-food supply chains respond to emerging pressure for measures to reduce GHG emissions from agriculture. Drawing upon the Anglo-Foucauldian governmentality literature, we introduce the notion of the corporate carbon economy to conceptualise the practical techniques that enable private agri-food actors to make GHG emissions thinkable and governable in the context of existing market, regulatory, and supply chain pressures. Using a case study of the Australian dairy industry, we argue that private agri-food actors utilise a range of techniques that enable them to respond to existing government environmental regulations, balance current market pressures with future supply chain requirements, and demonstrate improved eco-efficiency along food supply chains. These techniques – which include environmental self-assessment instruments, tools for measuring GHG emissions, and sustainability reporting – have little direct relevance to the ‘international climate regime’ of carbon trading, and carbon markets more broadly, yet individually and in combination they are crucial in enacting an alternative regime of GHG governance. In concluding, we contend that the growing use of sustainability metrics by international food companies is likely to have the most powerful implications for GHG governance in the agri-food sector, with potentially far-reaching consequences for how future action on climate change is rendered thinkable and practicable. |
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| Keywords: | Corporate carbon economy Greenhouse gas abatement Private agri-food governance Dairy industry Australia |
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