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ZIG/ZAG 	UNB - European Commission [EC] "Blockchains for Social Good" [BSG] 
Challenge - CARBON CREDITS IN,LIGHT OF 2007 CARBON OFFSET STRATEGY

Thu 12 Dec 2019						Recipient: 61C2IWmu
REF: ACDKMCn1						Y/R: Climate+Renewables Strategy

Jon STIEBEL					E: council@innerwest.nsw.gov.au
Urban Sustainability Manager			F:{61}(2)
INNER WEST COUNCIL				M:{61}(4)
260 Liverpool Rd ASHFIELD 2131			P:{61}(2)9392-5000

Dear Mr STIEBEL					cc	Interested Parties

 ON-LINE CONCLUSION OF CARBON CREDITS LEGITIMACY IN LIGHT 2007 NSW GOV CARBON CREDITS RESEARCH

Our letter Tue 03 Dec 2019 re "2nd Request for ICT Plan" included the paragraph:

"In the meantime your contacts at the University of Sydney [UoS] School of Physics [SoP]
Professor Manfred LENZEN or Dr Arunima MALIK may wish to comment on the 2016 PhD thesis 
by Robert Michael WATT : "The Moral Economy of Carbon Offsetting: Ethics, Power and the 
Search for Legitimacy in a New Market" - Abstract attached below"

We have reviewed that PhD 2016 Thesis document and felt it may be helpful for the Inner West 
Council [IWC] to place the Conclusion section On-line for the Councillors to review as that 
Conclusion references a number of other sources that appear to reach the same conclusion that 
Carbon Credits are a "financial rort"

This is before any discussion on quantifying "unsustainable consumption" as researched 
by the University of Sydney School of Physics

"p17 Climate + Renewables Strategy states

 "Unsustainable consumption - a significant source of green house gas emissions"

Inner West Council recognizes that the community not only influences local emissions, it 
influences global greenhouse gas emissions through the supply chains of goods and services they 
purchase (Figure 7)"

There are a number of references in the PhD Thesis about the impact of aviation on the 
generation of Carbon emissions which is a principal issue in the research by UoS SoP for 
"unsustainable consumption"

In addition we have reviewed previous research in 2007 on the promotion of Offsets of Carbon 
Credits by businesses and individuals by NSW State Government Agencies (att A)

That Carbon Credits Offsets sponsorship by the NSW Government failed IN 2007 and now the 
IWC CRS states "The framework is mandated for all NSW councils by the NSW Government
and requires councils to demonstrate how they will deliver as, aspects of the CSP through a 
detailed Four-Year Delivery Program and annual Operational Plan"

We believe that the figure of "41 tonnes on unsustainable consumption per household per annum" 
in perpetuity is a fraudulent figure that needs to be reviewed by another research source

Yours sincerely



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Abstract

Carbon offsetting has been an institutionalised response to climate change for over a decade. 

Over this period, climate change has become more severe and calls for climate justice have 
become increasingly insistent. 

Yet the normative controversies of carbon offsetting remain unresolved, as debates about the 
environmental quality, development impacts and ethical implications of carbon offsetting continue. 

This thesis explores the relationship between morality and carbon offsetting in three domains. 

First it provides an evaluation of the ethics of offsetting. 

Second it gives an account of the 'lay normativity' of the market, describing how carbon market 
actors interpret and act upon issues of moral concern. 

And third, it explains offsetting's moral economy. 

First, the thesis examines the moral rationales for and problems of offsetting in order to clarify the 
bases of criticisms levelled at offsets by researchers concerned about trends in neoliberal 
environmental governance. 

In evaluation of the ethics of offsetting, the PhD recognises some limited rationales, but mainly 
highlights widespread problems including lack of environmental integrity and failure to produce 
'sustainable development'. 

The structure of the market is shown to create opportunities for malpractice and difficulties for 
reform. 

Second, building on work in cultural political economy, the research describes carbon offsetting's 
lay normativity. 

The account is based on interviews with over sixty carbon offset market actors including project 
developers, consultants, auditors, regulators, retailers and buyers in the UK, continental Europe, 
and in India. 

Findings show that the market is founded on ethical principles: offsetting is nothing without notions 
of environmental and developmental care. 

Critiques of, and reforms to, offsetting are also grounded in principled debate. 

But carbon market actors often use their power to further commercial interests that are not aligned 
with production of environmental or developmental value. 

And yet, even as rationales are ignored and problems are amplified, market actors maintain a 
discursive semblance of moral behaviour through forms of justification, story-telling and identity 
work. 

Third, the thesis explains how principles, profit and power combine to affect the governance of 
offsetting. 

It shows that the concentration of power among profit-seeking actors drives the production of 
offsetting's moral problems in the stages of project development, regulation and retail. 

Commercial interests in the politics of knowledge lead to manipulation of the discursive framings 
through which people come to understand offsets. 

Ethical narratives are deployed to sustain the market in states of dysfunction, enabling privileged 
groups to gain exchange value at the expense of climate protection and sustainable development. 

Through this explanatory work, the PhD contributes an original application of ideas about moral 
political economy to the case of climate change and carbon trading, demonstrating that powerful 
actors can shape culture and alter our perceptions of right and wrong.




	D	Key Documents

D5 The Moral Economy of Carbon Offsetting Ethics and Search for Legitimacy in a New Market - 2016 Thesis Man Uni  

D4 2019-08-18 Submission to Inner West Council for Waste Management Joint-Venture

D3 2012-01-11 p10 YEF "Local Goverment plays the central role in litter and waste management"

D2 2012-01-11 p6 YEF "Populations, Dogs and Parks"

D1 2012-01-11 Frontpage YEF "Closing the Poop Loop" Project Proposal


	R	References

R6 2019-01-19 Adelaide Advertiser: Compensation paid to Slave Owners 1835 - 2015 (180 yrs)

R5 2003-2014 Dr Duncan Ironmonger Value of Volunteers for 4 States

R4 2014-11-07 IBM "Blockchain" solution for the Diamond Industry Video

R3 1997 Lessons from a Dozen Years of Group Support Systems Research - 4,000 IBM projects

R2 Sir Evelyn de Rothschild - Director De Beers 1977-1994 & IBM UK 1972-1995

R1 1987-04-23 RUBAC Automatic eProcess Synchronisation Video

 
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