The Politics and Epistemology of Carbon Sinks

Roundtable with Celine Granjou, Andrew Song, Rebecca Pearse, Gopal Sarangi and James Goodman.

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 terms of their place in the global carbon cycle. New forms of carbonaccounting 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 emerge over 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 emerging themes, focusing on soil, coasts and forests.

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Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.