MARCH 30, 2024
Embedding Municipal Green Bonds in Mexico City’s Hydrosocial Cycle: ‘Green’ Debt and Climate Action Narratives
Mexico City's municipal "green" bonds (MGBs), issued in 2016 and 2018, financed two water infrastructure projects embedded in the city's hydrosocial cycle (the reciprocal transformation of water and society). The issuance of the MGBs created an entanglement of "green" debt and water circulation, whi...
MARCH 29, 2024
Climate services for food security in Guatemala: An exploration of institutional dynamics in a colonial and neoliberal system
Several governmental and nongovernmental institutions in Guatemala have been tasked with tackling the country’s problem of food insecurity. Although food insecurity has a variety of causes, the issue of climate change is beginning to attract initiatives to address the problem. Thus, Guatemalan ins...
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Decolonizing refugeehood: The rise of climate refugees as a new legal subjectivity
This article examines the misrecognition of climate refugees as a form of climate coloniality, through the lens of decolonial environmental justice (EJ). I address two research questions: (1) Why is climate refugeehood a matter of decolonial EJ? (2) How can decolonial EJ contribute to overc...
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
Pathways to decolonize north–south relations around energy transition
Abstract Climate coloniality manifests in the violent appropriation of territories in the Global South, including the extraction of strategic minerals such as copper and molybdenum to service energy transition and green growth for the major world powers. Peasant communities in the Intag river valley...