PAIS welcomes the public, and those from across faculties, to a hybrid talk by Jack Copley titled, ‘Decarbonising the Downturn: The Contradictions of Green Capitalism Today’.

As Copley describes: “Avoiding catastrophic global warming requires the decarbonisation of the world economy. But this green transformation faces a series of intersecting obstacles posed by capitalism’s long-run developmental tendencies, including entrenched economic stagnation and the proliferation of surplus populations. Pursuing decarbonisation in this context will test the ability of capitalist states to govern while maintaining their liberal form.”

Copley completed his PhD at Warwick with PAIS in 2018 and is now Assistant Professor in International Political Economy in the School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University. He is the author of Governing Financialization: The Tangled Politics of Financial Liberalization in Britain (Oxford, 2021). 

To register, please state whether you will attend in-person or online by emailing will.berrington@warwick.ac.uk 

Once registered, a Microsoft Teams invite will be emailed to you closer to the time.

For any questions, please email the same address.