Workshop „Beyond Carbon Credits - Reflecting on Offsetting Practices and Exploring Climate Strategies for a Better Life for All – The BOKU University Approach“.
Description:
Current climate strategies and carbon offset projects often overlook the impacts on local communities' livelihoods, creating significant sustainability gaps. Traditional carbon compensation practices typically rely on market-driven mechanisms, which can lead to issues such as double counting and greenwashing. These approaches often fail to address the essential environmental and social dimensions necessary for genuinely sustainable development. Inadequately addressing these dimensions can exacerbate the marginalization of vulnerable communities and result in ineffective or unsustainable climate action. The BOKU University Approach however integrates climate strategies towards advanced climate projects with a focus on achieving carbon neutrality and enhancing community well-being. This workshop is designed to critically assess the current offsetting practices and explore innovative, inclusive strategies that genuinely benefit both the environment and local populations. By examining the climate projects implemented through the Centre for Global Change and Sustainability and local project partners in tropical regions as case studies, we will explore how integrated strategies can lead to more effective and equitable outcomes for a better life for all. Throughout the workshop, participants - donors, local project partners and civil society - will engage in developing alternative approaches that prioritize holistic, community-focused climate strategies, moving beyond conventional offsetting practices
Main purpose of the workshop:
Gain insights on the current / future role of carbon offsetting within broader climate mitigation strategies.
Discuss objectives, benefits, and challenges of carbon offsetting, and potential changes needed.
Reflect methods for assessing offsetting projects using environmental and social criteria.
Explore opportunities for CO2-Compensation to improve communities’ livelihoods alongside BOKU
Universities projects in tropical regions.
Dieser Workshop bietet eine wertvolle Gelegenheit, den Austausch zwischen verschiedenen Stakeholdern zu fördern und zielt darauf ab, die aktuellen Kompensationspraktiken kritisch zu hinterfragen und innovative, inklusive Strategien zu erkunden, die sowohl der Umwelt als auch den lokalen Bevölkerungen zugutekommen und findet am Dienstag, den 10. September, von 14:00 bis 17:00 Uhr an der BOKU statt.
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