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The first is the inevitability discourse, which states that there is no alternative to these consensuses. This restriction of the world of the possible has been perfected over the last decades with different repertoires of social legitimation, be it access to consumption by the popular sectors or the rhetoric of breathing healthier air. Also, the "Consensus of theCommodities » was built on the idea that there was an agreement on the irrevocable or irresistible nature of the extractive dynamics, resulting from the growing world demand for raw materials, whose objective was to close the possibility of other alternatives. Similarly, the "Decarbonization Consensus" today intends to install the idea that, given the climate urgency, there is no other possible transition, and that the only existing and "realistic" one is the corporate transition.
Secondly, all these consensuses imply a greater concentration of India Email List in non-democratic actors (large corporations, financial actors and international organizations), which undermine any possibility of democratic governance, much more so in a "transition" context. This manifests itself in two main ways. On the one hand, it is observed in the corporate capture of governance spaces. Areas such as the Conference of Parties ( cop ) which, as the supreme body of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, should be multilateral forums to advance in the fight against climate change, are increasingly a business fair for the green capitalism that maintains the energy power relations between the North and the South. We can say that the copsthey serve the “Decarbonization Consensus” as the wto served the “Washington Consensus” and the “Commodity Consensus.

On the other hand, it is manifested in the strong concentration of power among large companies, from the beginning to the end of global chains. If we think about the case of lithium in Argentina and Chile, for example, at the end of the global value chain are the automobile giants (Toyota, bmw , vw , Audi, Nissan, General Motors) and electrical companies, such as Vestas and Tesla.
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