<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Ecuatorianistas, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">An important initiative to both sign and circulate. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Apologies for any cross postings.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">All the best,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Juli Hazlewood<span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">------------------------------</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">------------------------------</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">------------</span><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_-3255899781203455203m_-6982244347765064207gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Julianne A. Hazlewood, Ph.D. in Geography</font></div><div><div style="font-size:small"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Instructor at University of California, Santa Cruz</font></div><div style="font-size:small"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Environmental Studies Department and Rachel Carson College</font></div><div style="font-size:small"><b><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></b></div><div style="font-size:small"></div></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#660000" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>"<i>Que tus sueños sean más grande que tus miedos</i>"<br>[May your dreams be bigger than your fears]- Acción Poética</b></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 9:06 AM Osborne, Tracey N - (tosborne) <<a href="mailto:tosborne@email.arizona.edu" target="_blank">tosborne@email.arizona.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Here you go Juli! Thanks for your signature.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">"Osborne, Tracey N - (tosborne)" <<a href="mailto:tosborne@email.arizona.edu" target="_blank">tosborne@email.arizona.edu</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Saturday, November 10, 2018 at 12:29 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>Karin Bäckstrand <<a href="mailto:karin.backstrand@statsvet.su.se" target="_blank">karin.backstrand@statsvet.su.se</a>>, "<a href="mailto:eva.lovbrand@liu.se" target="_blank">eva.lovbrand@liu.se</a>" <<a href="mailto:eva.lovbrand@liu.se" target="_blank">eva.lovbrand@liu.se</a>>, "<a href="mailto:katrina.brown@exeter.ac.uk" target="_blank">katrina.brown@exeter.ac.uk</a>" <<a href="mailto:katrina.brown@exeter.ac.uk" target="_blank">katrina.brown@exeter.ac.uk</a>>, "<a href="mailto:m.leach@ids.ac.uk" target="_blank">m.leach@ids.ac.uk</a>" <<a href="mailto:m.leach@ids.ac.uk" target="_blank">m.leach@ids.ac.uk</a>>, "<a href="mailto:J.R.Fairhead@sussex.ac.uk" target="_blank">J.R.Fairhead@sussex.ac.uk</a>" <<a href="mailto:J.R.Fairhead@sussex.ac.uk" target="_blank">J.R.Fairhead@sussex.ac.uk</a>>,
"Forsyth,TJ" <<a href="mailto:T.J.Forsyth@LSE.AC.UK" target="_blank">T.J.Forsyth@LSE.AC.UK</a>>, Rebecca Lave <<a href="mailto:rlave@INDIANA.EDU" target="_blank">rlave@INDIANA.EDU</a>>, Adam Geoffrey Bumpus <<a href="mailto:abumpus@unimelb.edu.au" target="_blank">abumpus@unimelb.edu.au</a>>, "<a href="mailto:nela@ukzn.ac.za" target="_blank">nela@ukzn.ac.za</a>" <<a href="mailto:nela@ukzn.ac.za" target="_blank">nela@ukzn.ac.za</a>>, "<a href="mailto:r.muradian@maw.ru.nl" target="_blank">r.muradian@maw.ru.nl</a>" <<a href="mailto:r.muradian@maw.ru.nl" target="_blank">r.muradian@maw.ru.nl</a>>, "<a href="mailto:nicolas.kosoy@mcgill.ca" target="_blank">nicolas.kosoy@mcgill.ca</a>" <<a href="mailto:nicolas.kosoy@mcgill.ca" target="_blank">nicolas.kosoy@mcgill.ca</a>><br>
<b>Cc: </b>Kathleen McAfee <<a href="mailto:kmcafee@sfsu.edu" target="_blank">kmcafee@sfsu.edu</a>>, Barbara Haya <<a href="mailto:bhaya@berkeley.edu" target="_blank">bhaya@berkeley.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>FW: Scholars' letter on California TFS<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Colleagues and Friends,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am writing to you because of your expertise broadly on the commodification of nature, and specifically on forest based carbon offsets and implications for local communities. Next week California Air Resources Board will consider entering
tropical forests into California’s carbon market and has requested public statements. A few of us with expertise on carbon markets, forests and local communities have drafted a letter that now has over 70 academic signatures. Please read the email below and
consider signing onto the letter if you agree. Also, please do forward to other scholars who might be interested. It would be incredibly powerful to reach 100 academic signatures by Sunday November 11th. Thank you for your consideration.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">All the best,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Tracey Osborne, PhD</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Visiting Scholar, Santa Cruz Institute for Social Transformation, Department of Environmental Studies, UC Santa Cruz
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Associate Professor, School of Geography and Development, University of Arizona</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><a href="http://geography.arizona.edu/tosborne" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563c1">http://geography.arizona.edu/tosborne</span></a></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:#0563c1">Public Political Ecology Lab</span></a> </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Director, <a href="https://climatealliancemap.org/" target="_blank">
<span style="color:#0563c1">Climate Alliance Mapping Project</span></a> </span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times",serif;color:black">A few of us have drafted an open letter to the California Air Resources Board that we hope you consider signing. We’ve had a great initial response and hope
to get many signatures by <b>Nov. 11</b> and present the document at a pubic ARB session on Nov. 15-16. Here's the story:</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times",serif;color:black">The ARB may soon approve yet another way for the state’s biggest greenhouse-gas emitters to buy their way out of their legal obligations by purchasing dubious
offsets, this time in the global South. ARB’s proposed new Tropical Forest Standard would link California’s cap-and-trade program to subnational states in the forested tropics. This is a bad idea for reasons we have tried to summarize in the letter. It would
set a terrible international precedent as California officials continue to promote the state’s climate policy as a model for the world. </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times",serif;color:black">Until now the ARB has mainly taken its cues from environmental economists, its own technical staff, big green NGOs, carefully vetted officials and indigenous
spokespeople from Brazil and Mexico, and consultants with personal and career interests in carbon trading and forest conservation financed by offsets. The ARB board and staff seem unaware of the actual record and problems of REDD+ PES, and when told about
this, respond that their proposed “jurisdictional REDD” would surmount such problems. Our letter voices widespread concerns about forest carbon offset programs shared by so many geographers and other researchers who are closer to understanding how these projects
are working on the ground.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times",serif;color:black">We three authors are approaching this from different perspectives but we think the case against this TFS initiative is very strong. We are not condemning REDD+,
etc., nor offsets in general in the letter. We are stressing the ways that the TFS could implicate the state in harmful practices, would fail to achieve any net environmental gain, and fails to meet California’s legislated requirements.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times",serif;color:black">Please sign if you agree, and circulate the letter to other scholars with academic credentials who have worked on REDD/PES, carbon trading/offsetting, tropical
forests/conservation/development, etc. We will be adding more citations: suggestions appreciated. </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times",serif;color:black">** You can add your name to the letter at this link:</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times",serif;color:black"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScIUh1PGTF-rdZXynXXARsiWH0m1aYsoZt31o4W2iqYfvXrMQ/viewform" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScIUh1PGTF-rdZXynXXARsiWH0m1aYsoZt31o4W2iqYfvXrMQ/viewform</span></a></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times",serif;color:purple"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pbwBoZDg26BaWgP28jcuCC316CSTFDq1/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Here</a> </span><span style="font-family:"Times",serif;color:black">is a link
to the letter (it’s also attached).</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times",serif;color:black"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1plIObM7Ig3plgHYdlciQjPpLjGEEWYmA/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">And here</span></a> is information about the Tropical
Forest Standard and how to submit individual letters to the ARB. Do let us know if you have questions or comments.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times",serif;color:black">Sincerely, </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times",serif;color:black">Kathleen McAfee</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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