Speaking Sustainability, Sustaining Extraction: Narratives of Corporate Climate Obstruction within the UNFCCC
サステナビリティを語り、資源採取を持続させる：UNFCCCにおける企業の気候妨害ナラティブ (AI 翻訳)
Liam Rule
🤖 gxceed AI 要約
日本語
本論文は、UNFCCCのCOPに参加する主要企業が気候対策を妨害するために用いるナラティブを批判的に分析。ネットゼロ・カーボンニュートラルというナラティブが最も多く、エネルギー企業はテクノ楽観主義とエネルギー安全保障を強調して化石燃料依存を正当化する。グリーンウォッシングが単なるマーケティングではなく、ガバナンス戦略として機能していることを明らかにする。
English
This thesis critically analyzes how major corporate actors at UNFCCC COPs use narratives to obstruct climate action. It identifies eight thematic narratives, with Net-Zero Carbon Neutrality dominating. Energy firms disproportionately deploy Techno-Optimism and Energy Security to justify fossil fuel dependence. The study reveals greenwashing as a sophisticated governance strategy that shapes legitimate climate action, contributing to climate justice movements.
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📝 gxceed 編集解説 — Why this matters
日本のGX文脈において
日本のGX文脈では、企業のサステナビリティ報告書や有報におけるグリーンウォッシング批判として活用可能。特にトヨタが事例に含まれており、日本企業の開示戦略への示唆を与える。
In the global GX context
Globally, this paper exposes how corporate narratives at UNFCCC undermine climate action, directly relevant to anti-greenwashing regulations (EU CSRD, SEC climate rule) and the credibility of voluntary disclosure frameworks like TCFD/ISSB.
👥 読者別の含意
🔬研究者:Provides a critical framework for studying corporate climate obstruction and greenwashing through discourse analysis.
🏢実務担当者:Sustainability teams should review their own narratives to avoid misleading claims that could attract regulatory scrutiny.
🏛政策担当者:Offers evidence for strengthening anti-greenwashing rules and requiring substantive just transition disclosures.
📄 Abstract（原文）
This thesis applies a critical lens to how the most influential corporate actors at the recent UNFCCC COPs seek to obstruct climate action and the green transition through a smoke screen of corporate environmental and sustainability discourses. Through a systematic deconstruction of these corporate documents, this study reveals a variety of key narratives through which corporations delay, deny, and foster inaction to climate action. The eight most influential corporations, determined by the InfluenceMap database as Amazon, BASF, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, SINOPEC, Toyota, and Volkswagen, were selected based on their documented presence and strategic engagement at COPs 27-29. This research employs a document-based qualitative discourse analysis to identify eight thematic narratives: Energy Security and Affordability, Green Economy, Innovation-Resilience Hybrid, Net-Zero Carbon Neutrality, Producer-Consumer Relations, Solution Skepticism, Techno-Optimism, and Transition. Findings demonstrate that the Net-Zero Carbon Neutrality narrative dominates across all corporations, appearing over 100 times in aggregate, while energy corporations like Shell, Chevron, and ExxonMobil disproportionately deploy Techno-Optimism and Energy Security narratives to justify continued fossil fuel dependency. Notably absent are substantive discussions of just transition, revealing corporate reluctance to engage with the social and political dimensions of decarbonization. This analysis connects corporate discursive strategies to obstruction tactics documented within UNFCCC negotiations, demonstrating that greenwashing operates not merely as misleading marketing but as a sophisticated governance strategy that shapes what counts as legitimate climate action. By mapping these narrative patterns, this thesis contributes to climate justice movements working to reclaim governance from corporate capture and reimagine planetary healing guided by those most impacted by the climate crisis, including Indigenous communities advocating for land sovereignty and ecological stewardship.
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