This paper analyses the corporate hegemonic structures of power underlying
the project of climate capitalism. Its promoters present climate
capitalism as an emerging regime of accumulation founded on carbon markets
and the ecological modernization of production, that could replace the
prevalent carboniferous capitalist regime and provide a deeply needed
reduction of carbon emissions. We empirically map out the network of
corporate-funded policy-planning organizations participating in climate
capitalist knowledge production and mobilization to critically appraise
the possibility of such a transition. We find that these policy-planning
organizations are positioned to play a crucial role as intermediaries
between regional and sectoral corporate interests, and that they crucially
link between energy and financial firms. However, energy-finance linkages
are sparse, and we also find a relatively thin network carried by a small
number of individual capitalists from the fossil fuel and nuclear sectors.
These findings cast doubt on the hypothesis that a strong climate
capitalist bloc is emerging.