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Working with and against climate finance

Tanya Matthan

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space2026https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x261428262article
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Abstract

Refusing simple narratives that equate the state of climate action to the quantity of finance flowing in its name, Climate Finance shows that financial instruments and ideas are built on moral and political assumptions about what is valued, whose risks need protection, and who is responsible for redressing harm. Departing from both mainstream and critical approaches to climate finance, the authors neither take financial logics and dynamics to be inevitable and essential, nor dismiss its possibilities for real climate action. Instead, they investigate finance as a dynamic space of political contestation, in which unevenly situated actors envision, negotiate, and build diverse climate futures. In doing so, the book not only offers us vital tools and frameworks to understand what climate finance is and does. Rather, by recognizing the need for a multiplicity of strategies to address our planetary predicament, Climate Finance also pushes for a more expansive imagination of the possible in relation to the actual.

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@article{tanya2026,
  title        = {{Working with and against climate finance}},
  author       = {Tanya Matthan},
  journal      = {Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x261428262},
}

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