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	INDEX PPWC-IWC COMMITTEE MEETING FOLLOW-UP LETTER ON CARBON CREDITS

Mon 25 Nov 2019							Recipient: 61C3xxxx
REF: IWCCAM1q						Y/R: Enhanced Park Waste Mgt

HOW DOES PAYING OFF "41 TONNES OF HOUSEHOLD UNSUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION PER ANNUM" WORKS WITH CLIMATE CHANGE

Hi Everyone - thank you for the feedback we have received re the very exciting Strategic 
plans developed by the Inner West Council [IWC] to achieve the objectives of "Our Inner 
West 2036"

The "Petersham Park Waste Collective [PPWC]" have laid the foundations for community 
groups to work with IWC and now provide these communications On-line including the 
Report to Council officers on Thu 14 Nov 2019 "Governance issues to achieve CSP 2036"

We look forward to keeping you informed of progress with including pet excrement as part 
of effective organic waste management processes

However in the meantime the committee has been reviewing the draft "Climate + 
Renewables Strategy [CRS] - Measuring Consumption Emissions"

P 17 Identified "Unsustainable consumption - significant greenhouse gas 
emissions"

The community influences greenhouse gas emissions through the supply chain of 
goods and services they purchase (fig 7)

Fig 7	(copy attached)

a	 6 tonnes per household per year - transport, waste & energy

b	41 tonnes of consumption emissions per household per year !

The Research conducted by Professor Manfred LENZEN and Dr Arunima MALIK, of The 
School of Physics Sydney University, found consumption emissions are 76% of the Inner 
West household's carbon emissions

Can anyone explain how that operates ?

The current price of carbon is here

"Nordhaus has suggested, based on the social cost of carbon emissions, that an 
optimal price of carbon is around $30(US) per ton and will need to increase with inflation" 
(a US Ton is 2,000 pounds & a Metric Tonne is 1,000 kg or 2,204.6 pounds)

How many years will each Inner West household have to pay for 41 Tonnes off 
consumption emissions and when does it start - 2036 ?

In the meantime you may want to review the Uni Manchester PhD Thesis by Robert WATT 
"The Moral Economy of Carbon Offsetting: Ethics, Power and the Search for Legitimacy in a New Market"

Tks			Regards



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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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