Undoing equivalence: Rethinking carbon accounting for just carbon removal

摘要: Concerns are increasingly raised over the centrality of carbon removal in climate policy, particularly guise ‘net-zero’ targets. Most significantly perhaps, treating emissions and removals as equivalent obscures emission reductions, resulting ‘mitigation deterrence’. Yet conflation reductions is only one among several implicit equivalences accounting. Here we examine three other forms – carbon, geographical temporal equivalence - discuss their implications for justice environmental risks with removal. We conclude that ‘undoing’ these would further a just response to crisis tentatively explore what such undoing might look like practice.