Comprising a team of researchers, The Mont Pelerin Rewrite project is a performative effort to rework contemporary neoliberal economic ideology established by the Mont Pèlerin Society—lead by economist Friedrich Hayek—in the Swiss Mountains in 1947. The Mont Pèlerin Society laid down the precepts for a world governed by free markets, floating currencies, and deregulation, that we live in the legacy of today, much to the detriment of humanity and the planet.

In an effort to imagine a different world, The Mont Pelerin Rewrite utilizes the workshop format to reinterpret Article 6 of the Paris Climate Agreement, a complex and contentious operational text outlining rules on how countries can reduce their emissions using international carbon markets. By reworking this central policy document that carries symbolic significance for the entire regime of climate governance, but which is encoded with neoliberal ideology, The Mont Pelerin Rewrite opens up discussion on alternative logics for acting collectively in the face of planetary crisis.

Johannes Bruder

Orit Halpern

Karolina Sobecka