Energy and Resources Group Colloquium

The international community seeks to increase public and private financial flows to address the climate crisis. Initiatives to promote emissions reductions target forests and waterways across the Global South; their success often depends on the reorientation of local governance practices. This talk draws on mixed methods research in Guatemala to examine the effects of transnational climate initiatives in contexts of institutionalized corruption, impunity, and violence??"and their entanglements with entrenched kleptocratic networks.

Speaker: Kelsey Alford-Jones, UC Berkeley