One Tonne of Carbon Dioxide Equivalent (1tCO2e)

Dehm, Julia

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“…Carbon accounts expressed in terms of CO2e, though presented by scientists and many governing actors as determinate facts, involve multiple layers of abstraction from the underlying physical reality of emissions and the multiplicity of social contexts in which they are produced (Dehm 2018;Lövbrand and Stripple 2011). "Greenhouse gas" is an umbrella term for a basket of gases with different chemical properties, each of which has a different warming effect.…”

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“…These various causal processes, moreover, are embedded in diverse sociotechnical, economic and political contexts. By abstracting from these contextual features in order to isolate common properties, carbon accounting proponents created equivalences between diverse activities (Dehm 2018;Lövbrand and Stripple 2011;MacKenzie 2009).…”

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“…International climate governance has historically been anchored in a carbon-based accountability framework. The objects of governance under this framework are territorial, anthropogenic point sources of greenhouse gas emissions and removals by sinks, standardised to tonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalent (CO2e) (Dehm 2018). State responsibility is conceptualised in terms of limiting or reducing CO2e, and information about states' performance is generated via systems for the measurement/monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) of greenhouse gas emissions and removals.…”

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Counting Carbon or Counting Coal? Anchoring Climate Governance in Fossil Fuel–Based Accountability Frameworks

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Kuch²

2022

Global Environmental Politics

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For decades, the object of international climate governance has been greenhouse gases. The inadequacy of decarbonization based on this system has prompted calls to expand climate governance to include restrictions on fossil fuel supply. Such initiatives could rely on accountability frameworks based on fossil fuel reserves, production, or infrastructure, yet there has been little consideration of the different implications of these options. We inform such discussions by undertaking a sociotechnical analysis of existing schemes for the monitoring, reporting and verification of fossil fuels. We identify serious risks from anchoring climate governance in fossil fuel reserves. More promising directions for supply-side governance lie in accountability frameworks based on a combination of fossil fuel production volumes and infrastructure, since these are more transparent to multiple actors. This transparency would provide much-needed opportunities for democratic oversight of the data underpinning climate governance, opening new channels for holding states accountable for their climate performance.

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“…Sim ilarly, the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) initia tive creates a market-based process to purchase carbon offsets to prevent deforestation and forest degradation. The process of abstracting, objectifying, and commodifying car bon requires complicated calculative devices that are a product of law (Dehm 2019). These new initiatives are part of a broader approach to managing commons through trad able environmental allowances.…”

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Property Regimes

Canfield¹

2020

The Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology

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Property regimes refer to the political, legal, and economic systems through which societies order their relationships between people with respect to valued things. Anthropologists and legal scholars have long been engaged in a dynamic dialogue about the organization and practice of property regimes. However, whereas legal theory has been uniquely concerned with ownership and private property as a system for allocating scarce goods and resources, anthropologists have investigated how property is constructed and shaped by everyday practice, illuminating how the distinctions between law and practice mutually constitute power relations. This chapter reviews how anthropologists have attended to aporias of property theory by ethnographically analysing conflicts and transformations between property regimes. It surveys anthropological insights into three continuing processes of property regime transformation: decolonization, privatization, and enclosure. In addition, it analyses two emergent processes around which property claims are being reconfigured: dematerialization and rematerialization. The dematerialization of property through informational and financial capitalism is occurring at a time when industrial modes of carbon-dependent accumulation are facing ecological limits brought on by climate change. However, technologies of informationalization and financialization are also rematerializing property regimes by constructing new calculative devices and global markets for increasingly limited natural resources. How these emerging regimes shape social relations between people, the distribution of social entitlements, and the boundaries between persons and things offers an important field of ethnographic enquiry.

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“…This is 'a globalist frame and way of seeing and way of knowing the problem of climate change based on an understanding of the global climate system as an ontologically unitary system'. 91 The Clean Development Mechanism, which was established by Article 12 of the Kyoto Protocol, is one manifestation of such a carbon market. If a project that takes place in the Global South can be shown to have 'real, measurable, and long-term benefits' in regards to climate change mitigation and if through this project reductions in emission will occur that can be shown to be 'additional to any that would occur in the absence of the certified project activity', then the project receives credits that can be bought by developed states to help them meet their reduction targets.…”

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A false promise? Regulating land-grabbing and the post-colonial state

Tzouvala¹

2019

Leiden Journal of International Law

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Since 2008, a global ‘land rush’ has been unfolding and so have efforts by international, national and regional actors to position themselves as the principal authorities in the determination of appropriate usages of land. This article examines three of the most influential ‘soft law’ instruments: the Principles for Responsible Agricultural Investment; the Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems and; the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure. Despite their substantive differences, all three documents share a specific form of state-centrism. They imagine the host state of such large-scale investments as internally unitary and externally independent and entrust it with the bulk of responsibilities regarding the management of land investments. However, I argue that this particular form of state-centrism obscures the legal and administrative realities of the post-colonial state that is often legally bifurcated and subject to pervasive forms of international authority. Rather, an appreciation of the multitude of actors who claim jurisdiction over the lands of the South enables a better understanding of the legal mechanics of land-grabbing. Sierra Leone, which has been positioned as a ‘poster child’ for the implementation of such ‘soft law’ instruments, serves as the focal point of this jurisdictional approach to land-grabbing. In this context, the promise of ‘soft law’ instruments to make the post-colonial state the guarantor of universally beneficial large-scale land acquisitions is shown to be a false one.

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One Tonne of Carbon Dioxide Equivalent (1tCO2e)

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A false promise? Regulating land-grabbing and the post-colonial state

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