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Setting off without offsets: Ambitious pathways for climate mitigation. A Participatory Activist Research case study of the Climate Land Ambition and Rights Alliance’s campaign for ‘Real Zero’ and ‘Right-based Ecosystem Solutions’

Saglietti, Clara LU (2021) In Master Thesis Series in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science MESM02 20211
LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies)
Abstract
Increasingly dominant Net Zero pledges to address climate change are promoting Nature-based Solutions (NbS) to excuse business-as-usual of fossil fuel use and land grabbing. Through Participatory Activist Research in collaboration with the Climate Land Ambition and Rights Alliance (CLARA), this thesis investigates how to challenge the corporate appropriation of NbS in the Net Zero narrative. Through the lenses of social movement theory, political ecology, and framing theory, a counter-narrative and its subsequent communication strategy are developed. Namely, through a transformative framing (1) Net Zero frames must be deconstructed and replaced by Real Zero for absolute emissions reductions; (2) Greenwashed NbS must be carefully reframed... (More)
Increasingly dominant Net Zero pledges to address climate change are promoting Nature-based Solutions (NbS) to excuse business-as-usual of fossil fuel use and land grabbing. Through Participatory Activist Research in collaboration with the Climate Land Ambition and Rights Alliance (CLARA), this thesis investigates how to challenge the corporate appropriation of NbS in the Net Zero narrative. Through the lenses of social movement theory, political ecology, and framing theory, a counter-narrative and its subsequent communication strategy are developed. Namely, through a transformative framing (1) Net Zero frames must be deconstructed and replaced by Real Zero for absolute emissions reductions; (2) Greenwashed NbS must be carefully reframed to advocate for right- and ecosystem-based approaches; (3) Offsets must be utterly excluded as a solution for ambitious mitigation pathways. Hence, bridging academia and activism, this sustainability science research contributes to bringing knowledge to action in the climate movement. (Less)
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author
Saglietti, Clara LU
supervisor
organization
course
MESM02 20211
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
Nature-based Solutions, Net Zero, Counter-narrative, Framing, Sustainability Science
publication/series
Master Thesis Series in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science
report number
2021:021
language
English
id
9047787
date added to LUP
2021-06-02 07:43:03
date last changed
2021-06-02 07:43:03
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  abstract     = {{Increasingly dominant Net Zero pledges to address climate change are promoting Nature-based Solutions (NbS) to excuse business-as-usual of fossil fuel use and land grabbing. Through Participatory Activist Research in collaboration with the Climate Land Ambition and Rights Alliance (CLARA), this thesis investigates how to challenge the corporate appropriation of NbS in the Net Zero narrative. Through the lenses of social movement theory, political ecology, and framing theory, a counter-narrative and its subsequent communication strategy are developed. Namely, through a transformative framing (1) Net Zero frames must be deconstructed and replaced by Real Zero for absolute emissions reductions; (2) Greenwashed NbS must be carefully reframed to advocate for right- and ecosystem-based approaches; (3) Offsets must be utterly excluded as a solution for ambitious mitigation pathways. Hence, bridging academia and activism, this sustainability science research contributes to bringing knowledge to action in the climate movement.}},
  author       = {{Saglietti, Clara}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  series       = {{Master Thesis Series in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science}},
  title        = {{Setting off without offsets: Ambitious pathways for climate mitigation. A Participatory Activist Research case study of the Climate Land Ambition and Rights Alliance’s campaign for ‘Real Zero’ and ‘Right-based Ecosystem Solutions’}},
  year         = {{2021}},
}