Beyond Carbon Credits | Sarah Milne | TEDxANU

Sarah Milne talks about how infrastructure built for sustainable needs are harming the environment. Not all intention of selling carbon credits lead to conserving and protecting the environment. In Cambodia, protecting the forests and selling carbon credits has led to illegal logging, a rise of authoritarian power in government and corruption. She questions the impact of carbon credits in battling climate change. Dr Sarah Milne has worked on conservation and development issues for twenty years, both in Northern Australia and Southeast Asia. Although her initial training was in Engineering, she later gained her PhD in Geography from the University of Cambridge (2010). Sarah now specializes in the field of political ecology, which enables her to explore the politics of green intervention in practice, as well as complicated struggles over natural resources - as reflected in her current Australian Research Council funded project on “rupture” with colleagues at the ANU. The bulk of Sarah’s fieldwork has taken place in Cambodia, where global conservation organisations try to conserve forests and biodiversity. In this context, Sarah studies what happens in practice as market mechanisms like REDD+, for reducing emissions through the sale of forest carbon credits, are implemented on the ground. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@R1M1r1m1]

I've been reading and listening to other videos trying to find out what carbon credits actually are and they were saying alot without saying anything at all. Sarah Milne is the first person to break it down into a way that I can understand.

[@tristangonzales3589]

I totally agree. Well, I just got to know it through carb0nfi, a platform on blockchain and web3 that would incentivize people that would offset their carbon footprints. I didnt even know that carbon credits are a thing until recently. This is a really great eye opener.

[@cielclear1749]

That was really nice and detailed. Would really appreciate if chapters were marked with titles.

[@wanbelstap168]

It is sad that such important presentations as these get very little attention..no wonder we are here now...at the precipice as described by scientists..

[@ecomediacompass1273]

Thank you! It’s important to lay a just structure to handle carbon offsets.

[@ErikaFlores-px9gs]

But regardless .. its all about the money ...

[@acmewebservices]

such important perspective.

[@AngelRodriguez-qg5zq]

Thank you 🙏🏻

[@4Nevyn]

The truth is, it is humans against humans. Basically developed against under developed. Rich against poor. We are going to spiral out, until only a small portion of "rich" will be left. That is when the rich will realise that they are rich due to the consumer. However in the process we would have destroyed all animal and plant life.

[@shamsur4342]

oh!👍😍

[@rektdepartment5891]

Oh yeah

[@RajuRamalingamkr]

Who needs carbon credit? Developed nation or who?

[@CorncropTv]

Lol these have got to be be the most suppressed Ted videos, I'm sure people will care when their pockets are hit with those new"Carbon taxes".

[@riffmondo9733]

A criminal scam