Seminar/discussion on Climate Sinks in Sydney Australia

[Jonathan Marshall]

Climate Justice Research Centre, UTS

The Politics and Epistemology of Carbon Sinks

Roundtable Discussion: Celine Granjou, Andrew Song, Rebecca Pearse, Gopal Sarangi and James Goodman

Tuesday 13 August 1230-2.00pm

UTS Building 10, Level 5, Room 580 (10.5.580),
Jones Street, Sydney
Australia

RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/roundtable-discussion-the-politics-and-epistemology-of-carbon-sinks-tickets-67982628873

With the 2015 Paris Agreement commitment to 'net zero' emissions by 2050, there is growing interest in measures to expand carbon sinks that will compensate for the continuing global increase in GreenHouse Gas emissions. Forests, coasts and soil, among others, are reconceptualised and repositioned in termsof their place in the global carbon cycle. New forms of carbon accounting technologies are applied to generate carbon credits and offsets. Governments and peoples are recruited to new roles in maintaining and expanding sinks. New forms of contestation emergeover carbon finance and its impacts on culture, land and livelihood. A range of new political agents and agendas are redefined. Some political subjects are empowered, and otherwise marginal constituencies are reconstituted. This seminar examines these emergingthemes, focusing on soil, coasts and forests.

Celine Granjou is a Senior researcher at the French Research Institute for Environment and Agriculture (RSTEA) and the Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), both in Grenoble, and also at the InterdisciplinaryLaboratory on Science Innovation and Society (LSIS) in Paris. She has a background in Science and Technology Studies, Political Sociology, and Environmental Sociology. Her current research interests include: health and environmental risks, nature conservationpolicies, biodiversity politics, climate governance, anticipation studies, environmental humanities, soil and human/ soil relationships. URL: https://sites.google.com/site/celinegranjouwebsite

Andrew Song researches coastal regions, the 'blue economy' and blue carbon at UTS with Michael Fabinyi, URL: https://www.uts.edu.au/staff/michael.fabinyi

Rebecca Pearse has researched forest carbon, in particular the REDD initiative in relation to forest rights and carbon offsetting. She is in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney where sheresearches inequalities and social/environmental change, with a particular interest in how capital relates to the carbon cycle, labour, land, gender and social difference; she is a key researcher with the Sydney Environment Institute. URL: https://sydney.edu.au/arts/ssps/staff/profiles/rebecca.pearse.php

Gopal Sarangi is an energy policy researcher at The Energy and Resources Institute, (TERI University), in New Delhi. His primary domain of research covers energy market and regulation, intersection of energy technologies, fuels and resources with public policies, social systems and processes, energy and climate policy, governance and institutional analysis ofenergy transition questions and impact assessment of energy and environmental interventions. He has a PhD on ‘Sustainability Assessment of India Electricity Sector’, comparing regional energy policies across India. URL: https://www.terisas.ac.in/faculty.php?id=34

James Goodman is Director at the Climate Justice Research Centre. URL; https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/our-research/climate-justice-research-centre

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