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10. Shall the American Association of Geographers Endorse Carbon Offsets? Absolutely Not!

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McAfee, Kathleen

Subjects
*CARBON offsetting, *GEOGRAPHERS, *CLIMATE change mitigation, *PUBLIC opinion, *GLOBAL warming, DEVELOPED countries
Abstract

Offsetting is widely embraced as a market-based solution to global warming. Governments, universities, and businesses of all sorts have pledged to achieve "net zero" greenhouse gas emissions partly or entirely through offsetting projects, many of which rely on so-called nature-based solutions (NBSs). Offsets are meant to compensate for damage caused by emissions from one place by absorbing or preventing the release of an equivalent amount somewhere else. At best, offsetting results in no change in total emissions, but as theory predicts and experience shows, that best result is rarely attainable. Meanwhile, both land-based and industrial offsets legitimize continued emissions. There is active debate in Paris-pact talks and in climate politics more broadly over how much fossil-fuel industries and industrial countries will be allowed to delay real climate action by representing offsets as if they were emissions reductions. The American Association of Geographers should not contribute to this illusion by endorsing offsetting. Instead we should take steps to reduce our own emissions and speak out clearly when our work has bearing on policy decisions and public perceptions about the climate crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2022
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16. Food sovereignty: Cultivating new alliances among fields, forests and cities

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Ferguson, Bruce G., Morales, Helda, González Rojas, Aldo, Íñiguez Pérez, Felipe de Jesús, Martínez Torres, María Elena, McAfee, Kathleen, Nigh, Ron, Perfecto, Ivette, Philpott, Stacy M., Soto Pinto, Lorena, Vandermeer, John, Vidal, Rosa María, Ávila Romero, León Enrique, Bernardino, Héctor, and Realpozo Reyes, Rosario

Subjects
Agrofuels, 6 - Ciencias aplicadas::63 - Agricultura. Silvicultura. Zootecnia. Caza. Pesca [CDU], Agrocombustibles, Biodiversity, Biodiversidad
Abstract

En junio de 2008 convocamos un foro-taller en Chiapas, México para potencializar alianzas entre organizaciones campesinas, conservacionistas y académicos. Los ponentes trazaron la evolución de las relaciones entre sistemas productivos, bosques y biodiversidad desde la época prehispánica hasta la actual crisis de la economía neoliberal y la agricultura industrial. También delinearon un nuevo paradigma para la conservación en donde los campesinos son protagonistas. En grupos de trabajo, elaboramos propuestas para cimentar una agenda común entre los distintos sectores representados. Las redes de cooperación emergieron como estructuras para coordinar acción y facilitar el intercambio de información y apoyo a distintas escalas geográficas. Los mercados solidarios son la confluencia de diversos intereses en dónde se pueden constituir dichas redes. También identificamos algunos temas específicos de trabajo, entre ellos: los agrocombustibles y la soberanía energética, los servicios ambientales y la educación para el campo. La biodiversidad y la soberanía alimentaria y territorial son los ejes de esta agenda de cooperación, que forma parte de una lucha internacional para reconstruir nuestros sistemas alimenticios. Abstract: In June, 2008, we convoked a forum and workshop in Chiapas, Mexico to strengthen alliances among farmers’ organizations, conservationists and academics. Speakers outlined the evolution of the relations among production systems, forests and biodiversity from the prehispanic era through the current crisis in the neoliberal economic model and industrial agriculture. They also framed a new conservation paradigm that prioritizes the role of farmers. We formed working groups that elaborated proposals for collaboration among the participating sectors. Cooperative networks emerged as appropriate structures for coordinating action and facilitating the exchange of information and support at various geographic scales. Solidarity-based markets are a venue where diverse interests converge, favoring the formation of such networks. We also identified some specific issues for collaboration, including: agrofuels and energy sovereignty, environmental services and rural education. Biodiversity and food sovereignty are the two axes of this agenda for cooperation that forms part of an international struggle to reconstruct our food systems.

Published
2009

20. Payment for Environmental Services in Mexico: Neoliberalism, Social Movements, and the State.

Author

McAfee, Kathleen and Shapiro, Elizabeth N.

Subjects
*POLLUTION control industry, *COMMODIFICATION, *ENVIRONMENTAL policy, *MARKETS, *FINANCE
Abstract

Commodification of environmental services - carbon storage, water filtration, flood control, wildlife habitats, genetic diversity, and scenic beauty - is a leading environmental policy trend. A new generation of projects aimed at "selling nature to save it" in the global South has been launched under the rubric of payment for environmental services (PES). Most of these PES projects rest on the premise that markets in biodiversity, carbon storage, and hydrological services can simultaneously slow climate change, promote conservation, and reduce poverty. However, they have been beset by conflicts that cast doubt on the idea that environmental services trading can produce the promised "triple win" of profitability, greening, and benefits for the poor. The World Bank-supported national PES program in Mexico was planned as a model of market-based management aimed at optimizing efficiency in conservation spending. But genuine markets have not materialized and efficiency criteria have clashed with anti-poverty goals and the agendas of Mexican state agencies. Consequently, like other neoliberal-inspired projects, the Mexican PES scheme is hybrid of market-like mechanisms, state regulations, and public subsidies. PES in Mexico has been further reshaped by the engagement of rural social movements that have arisen in opposition to neoliberal restructuring. These activist campesinos and their allies insist that ecosystem services are co-produced by nature and rural communities and that their values derive mainly from their contributions to rural life and Mexican society, not their market prices. These divergent conceptualizations of environmental values are linked to disparate views of the role of forestry, agriculture, and rural life, and the state in development, as well as contrasting understandings of nature-society relationships. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2008

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