26/02/2024
Panel Discussion: 'The great carbon market debate: is it over for offsetting?'
Tuesday 27 February, 5.15pm – 6.30pm GMT
Critics and proponents of offsetting agree: achieving global net zero emissions is essential. But how we get there is up for debate. Once hailed as a key solution to help individuals, organisations and governments achieve net zero emissions, offsetting approaches, and the carbon market underpinning them, have been plagued by bad actors, bad credits, and bad press.
But is the era of carbon offsetting over? Or could it still be reformed – not only offering a critical path to net zero, but also providing a necessary and efficient way to drive investment in mitigation projects, nature and sustainable livelihoods? Finally, does the carbon market need offsetting, or could it still grow without selling "offsets"?
Join an expert panel of academics and practitioners as they discuss the future of net zero aligned carbon offsetting.
Panel:
• Professor Myles Allen, Professor of Geosystem Science, School of Geography and the Environment
• Kaya Axelsson, Head of Policy and Partnerships, Oxford Net Zero, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment
• Sabine Frank, Executive Director, Carbon Market Watc
• Lydia Sheldrake, Director of Policy and Partnerships, Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative (VCMI)
• Professor Mette Morsing (Chair), Director, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment
This is a joint event with The Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment.
• To attend in-person in Oxford register here: https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/carbon-offsetting/
• To register to attend live online on crowdcast: https://www.crowdcast.io/c/carbon-offsetting
• To watch later: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_H6egAAobA
Also coming soon
• 'The inequality of wealth' with Rt Hon Liam Byrne, Prof Barbara Petrongolo & Prof Brian Nolan – 19 February
• 'Why governments need scientists' with Sir Patrick Vallance – 21 February
• Book talk: 'Not the end of the world: how we can be the first generation to build a sustainable planet' with Hannah Ritchie & Charles Godfray – 26 February
• 'The UK’s development strategy and the new economic and geopolitical challenges' with Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP, Minister for Development and Africa – 6 March
• 'Navigating world orders over five millennia: does the past offer clues to the future?' with Prof Amitav Acharya – 7 March
Critics and proponents of offsetting agree: achieving global net zero emissions is essential. But how we get there is up for debate.Once hailed as a key solu...
