Contested Geographies of Terrestrial Carbon

应对气候变化的国家承诺在很大程度上依赖于土地来封存和储存碳。如何在气候制度中协商和制度化关于土地使用的相互矛盾的想法，对于有效、公正和合法的气候应对至关重要。该项目旨在解释陆地气候缓解科学和政策的政治经济学，产生关于谁促进碳汇以及为什么促进碳汇的新知识。预期的项目成果包括指导方针，通过改进碳核算做法，使用一种结合利益相关者访谈、话语分析和专家启发的创新方法，促进更公正和可持续的土地利用。这些成果将显著惠及农村社区和农民。

National pledges to tackle climate change rely heavily on land to sequester and store carbon. How competing ideas about land use are negotiated and institutionalised in the climate regime is critical to effective, just and legitimate climate responses. This project aims to explain the political economy of the science and policy of land-based climate mitigation, generating new knowledge on who promotes carbon sinks and why. The expected project outcomes include guidelines to advance more just and sustainable land use through improved carbon accounting practices, using an innovative approach that combines stakeholder interviews, discourse analysis, and expert elicitation. These outcomes will notably benefit rural communities and farmers.