Contested Geographies of Terrestrial Carbon

各国应对气候变化的承诺在很大程度上依赖于土地来固碳和储存碳。如何在气候制度中谈判和制度化关于土地使用的竞争性想法对于有效，公正和合法的气候反应至关重要。该项目旨在解释陆基气候减缓科学和政策的政治经济学，产生关于谁促进碳汇及其原因的新知识。项目的预期成果包括通过改进碳核算做法，采用一种结合利益攸关方访谈、话语分析和专家启发的创新方法，推动更公正和可持续的土地利用的指导方针。这些成果将使农村社区和农民受益匪浅。

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.