CGIAR Climate Impact Area Webinar Series - Webinar 3: Carbon Credits: Can they be fixed?

cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationCGIAR Climate Change Impact Platformen_US
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden_US
cg.howPublishedGrey Literatureen_US
cg.identifier.urlhttps://www.youtube.com/live/xGvGf966zgg?si=XBih8cY10xUV946Hen_US
cg.placeMontpellier, Franceen_US
cg.subject.actionAreaSystems Transformationen_US
cg.subject.impactAreaClimate adaptation and mitigationen_US
cg.subject.impactPlatformClimate Changeen_US
cg.subject.sdgSDG 13 - Climate actionen_US
dc.contributor.authorCGIAR Climate Change Impact Platformen_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-06T13:17:11Zen_US
dc.date.available2024-10-06T13:17:11Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/155214en_US
dc.titleCGIAR Climate Impact Area Webinar Series - Webinar 3: Carbon Credits: Can they be fixed?en_US
dcterms.abstractMost countries, institutions, companies and individuals will continue to generate greenhouse gas emissions through their activities even as the world decarbonises, meaning many are choosing to compensate for these ‘residual’ emissions. The most common approach for doing so is to purchase carbon credits. The world’s forests store an estimated 861 billion tonnes of carbon—equivalent to approximately 100 years' worth of anthropogenic emissions, at current rates—and with good husbandry could potentially store up to 226 billion tonnes more. Clearly, preserving and repairing forests is a vital element of mitigating climate breakdown. But, worldwide, forests are under threat, and financial and political incentives to clear land can often defeat attempts at regulation. One answer is to transfer some of the global benefits of preservation to forest communities, paying them to preserve the forest that they would otherwise have cleared and thus preserving the forest while compensating communities for foregone income. This is (forest) carbon offsetting – and it is failing. Yale Environmental Economist Professor Rohini Pande will explain why in this exploratory webinar, the third in our series highlighting important areas of climate research that CGIAR does not yet work on extensively.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.audienceCGIARen_US
dcterms.audienceDonorsen_US
dcterms.audienceScientistsen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationCGIAR. 2024. CGIAR Climate Impact Area Webinar Series - Webinar 3: Carbon Credits: Can they be fixed? Video. Montpellier, France: CGIAR System Organization.en_US
dcterms.issued2024-05-21en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseOtheren_US
dcterms.publisherCGIAR Climate Change Impact Platformen_US
dcterms.subjectclimateen_US
dcterms.subjectresearchen_US
dcterms.subjectclimate changeen_US
dcterms.typeVideoen_US

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