Pioneers in the Global South
- COP27, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt
Watch the Futures Lab event that got everyone at COP27 talking about carbon removals in Africa - Carbon Removals: Pioneers in the Global South.
In June, TED Countdown hosted a Dilemma Session in New York focusing on the role of carbon credits in climate action. Gabrielle Walker and Delia Meth-Cohn of Rethinking Removals joined forces with Julio Friedmann (Carbon Direct) and Eli Mitchell-Larson (Carbon Gap) to design and present a workshop on carbon removals. We were aiming to focus on understanding quality criteria such as additionality and durability - but we started by looking at why we see carbon removals as a source of hope for climate action, not as climate denial or and moral hazard.
Here, Delia takes us through the stages of that event.
Last year, we convened many conversations across the removals ecosystem to work out what is needed to accelerate the scale-up of high-quality removals.
We are now translating these into a set of focused but coordinated initiatives.
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