Video: Is Green Capitalism an oxymoron?
Seminar 1: Is Green Capitalism an oxymoron?
Contributors to the 2025 Forum in Development and Change on The Political Economy of Renewables Capitalism debated three different views on the greening of capitalism. The first is that the development of capitalism historically inextricably linked to fossil fuels and cannot be ‘greened’. The second is that the pursuit of economic, environmental and social justice can only happen if we abandon our obsession with economic growth, regardless of the underlying energy mix. And third, there are opportunities to leverage the green transition for more just and environmentally sustainable capitalist economies.
Participants:
- Murat Arsel, International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Nikita Sud, University of Oxford
- Lindsay Whitfield, Copenhagen Business School
- Moderator: Jacob Hasselbach, Copenhagen Business School
Watch the recording here:
This a recording of the first seminar in the series What Is a Just Green Transition?, hosted by CBS Professor Lindsay Whitfield, Director of the Observatory for Just Green Transitions, and co-organized by CEU Democracy Institute and the Centre for Business and Development at CBS. The Observatory for Just Green Transitions is a collaboration between the Central European University in Budapest and Vienna, Copenhagen Business School, and a cross-continental network of institutions and scholars at the forefront of studying the political, socio-economic and geopolitical dimensions of green transitions.
Find out more about the course here.
