Carbon markets are pointless without meaningful steps to end reliance on fossil fuel extraction. They often fail to achieve environmental aims & disadvantage indigenous and vulnerable communities. This is not a win - more radical solutions like #CapandShare and #UBI are needed.
@MartinSimonneau from @coolearth on the million* dollar question ‘what’s the most efficient & just mechanism that will allow people at the frontline of deforestation to hace control and decision-making power?’ . Great guest lecture in our @SRILeeds @SEELeeds MSc course! Thanks!
Something big coming up!! Super excited to see how a somewhat foreign concept like a #basicincome will be conceptualised and implemented by #indigenouswomen in the #PeruvianAmazon to tackle injustices and fight the #ClimateCrisis
We are thrilled to announce that Cool Earth and @onamiap (The National Organisation of Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Women of Peru) have signed an inter-institutional cooperation agreement! Together we will continue to strengthen Indigenous Communities.
https://t.co/H5vUEipSuq
@Tom_Webb_222 @ProfJuliaMO1@coolearth @SRILeeds @SEELeeds More importantly, it'll be up to the Indigenous organisations and people of the villages to decide next steps. We need to move away from organisations like Cool Earth deciding on behalf of people who depend on the forest.
@Tom_Webb_222 @ProfJuliaMO1@coolearth @SRILeeds @SEELeeds Hi Tom, great question which highlights huge ethical questions. I think it will be complicated to attribute an increase in deforestation solely to the introduction of unconditional cash transfers. It'll be a combination of many factors, as it's always the case.
The awesome Martin Simonneau from @coolearth delivering a fantastic guest lecture to our MSc students @SRILeeds. What an amazing opportunity for us to hear first hand on their programme on universal basic income for #rainforest conservation! Thank you Martin! 💫💫 @SEELeeds
Is conservation basic income a good idea? Check what #conservation professionals think in our scoping study https://t.co/Udj4w70Ux6 @SRILeeds @ZoologyDave @_GeorgeHolmes@wateratleeds
@KevinClimate@fionaharvey@jrockstrom@SimonLLewis Why not replace the carbon offset/market-based rationale with a universal basic income one, grounded in equity, justice, basic security? @SimonLLewis 's reflection on cash to forests is nearly there. Why try and regulate offsets that will inevitably continue to marginalise people
Verra’s response to the @guardian investigation on carbon offsets is out of this world. Not a single mention of Indigenous peoples and local communities but an enduring faith in “academics and experts” who almost certainly don’t live in the rainforest: https://t.co/GiKjoCDLUI
Some inspiring opening statements at #FLARE22ROME with a big focus on making funding more accessible and flexible for peoples living in the forest. What’s so complicated about making funding direct? The big question this weekend IMO
Quite a story just shared here at @bien2022 of an Indigenous leader needing to constantly ring up a government bureaucrat to let her know how much money she has permission to use and to transfer a bit to a card to buy food. UBI puts an end to that kind of control by colonialists.
"Less than 1% of the academic literature on basic income addresses the natural environment" - @nicklangridge from @bathsps talking about the implications of UBI in addressing the climate crisis @bien2022. A gap @coolearth is trying to fill.