Carbon accounting

The environment needs to be protected. Well, this is what the universal "we" has agreed upon. So, there is an environment. And this environment needs human protectors, human managers. Between 2008 and 2012 I studied environmental managers in a corporation (a multinational Fortune 50 company).1 A key question emerging from this work is: which environment is being protected - or managed? Does more than one, singular, environment exist?

• 1. Lippert, Ingmar. Enacting Environments: An Ethnography of the Digitalisation and Naturalisation of Emissions. Augsburg: Augsburg University, Philosophisch-Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, 2013.

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Institut für Europäische Ethnologie
Labor: Sozialanthropologische Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung

in the “Aquarium” (107a), Mohrenstr. 41, 10117 Berlin

Ingmar Lippert has been invited by the STS scholars of Humboldt University to present emerging results1 of his PhD on the performative effects of work practices in corporate carbon accounting.

• 1. Lippert, Ingmar. "Extended Carbon Cognition as a Machine." Computational Culture 1 (2011).

Our member Ingmar Lippert has been invited by the Berlin based Innovation in Governance Research Group to give a talk on his recent work on corporate carbon accounting as part of the constituencies of emission trading policies1.

• 1. Lippert, Ingmar. "Managing Uncertainties in the Social Construction of Economic Demand: The Case of Carbon Emissions." In 6th International Conference in Interpretive Policy Analysis: Discursive Spaces. Politics, Practices and Power. Cardiff, 2011.

Initiator and Founding member of the Environment, Management and Society Research Group.

Since August 2012, Ingmar Lippert is contributing to the cluster of STS and Climate Change researchers at Tembusu College, National University of Singapore and is member of the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences' STS Cluster. Focused on Science and Technology Studies, Ingmar did his PhD Enacting Environments on Agents of Ecological Modernisation and their practices of enacting carbon emission realities supervised by the Chair for Sociology, Christoph Lau, of Augsburg University (Germany) and Lucy Suchman from Lancaster University's Centre for Science Studies. He did his undergraduate studies at Brandenburg University of Technology (Germany) and Bosporus University (Turkey) and graduated in Environmental and Resource Management.