Greening of value chains and climate-technological decoupling: the architecture of a new international division of labour through green artificial competitive advantages

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to conceptualize climate-technological decoupling as a structurally unique form of international economic decoupling and to substantiate green artificial competitive advantages as a theoretical category that continues the Smith – Ricardo – Krugman – neoprotectionist line of competitive advantage analysis. The conceptual novelty of the article lies in the identification of climate-technological decoupling as a form of decoupling whose regulatory object – the global atmosphere and the total balance of greenhouse gases – is physically indivisible, which radically distinguishes it from all previous forms (trade, investment, financial, technological) in which the object of decoupling was divisible between contours.