The Future That Grows on Trees - Studying the social life of climate change mitigation through forests

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Title
The Future That Grows on Trees - Studying the social life of climate change mitigation through forests

CoPED ID
da18a472-55a8-4505-a942-cf7ff2a09bd4

Status
Active

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Value
No funds listed.

Start Date
Sept. 25, 2022

End Date
Dec. 30, 2025

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Due to growing global energy demand and consumption, emission reduction alone will be insufficient for reaching the 1.5-degree objective. Additional greenhouse gas removal measures - either through technological innovation or natural carbon sinks - are increasingly popular forms of climate action. Amongst those, forests as socio-technical ecologies take a prominent position due to their natural ability to bind carbon in their biomass. As the marketization of carbon sequestration has been criticized for causing more emissions than avoiding them, my project proposal suggests looking at other speculative practices with trees. Connecting anthropological literature on speculation to Science and Technology studies research on alternative ways in which humans and the environment engage with each other, my project is guided by the question of how forests participate in transforming the relationship between nature and culture, and asks: What are the social and political implications for constructing the future through trees? Applying a multi-sited ethnographic approach, I will study how boundaries between nature and culture are renegotiated through biomass-based greenhouse gas removal techniques, and contribute with this project to the social study of climate change.

Jan Gilles STUDENT_PER

Subjects by relevance
  1. Emissions
  2. Climate changes
  3. Greenhouse gases
  4. Forests
  5. Carbon sinks
  6. Decrease (active)
  7. Carbon dioxide
  8. Bioenergy
  9. Societal effects
  10. Natural gas
  11. Climate protection
  12. Environmental changes
  13. Technology
  14. Carbon

Extracted key phrases
  1. Social study
  2. Additional greenhouse gas removal measure
  3. Climate change mitigation
  4. Technology study research
  5. Social life
  6. Greenhouse gas removal technique
  7. Natural carbon sink
  8. Global energy demand
  9. Climate action
  10. Carbon sequestration
  11. Forest
  12. Future
  13. Project proposal
  14. Emission reduction
  15. Natural ability

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