Presented by John Sheehan
Deputy Director Asia-Pacific Centre for Complex Real Property Rights, 
Adjunct Professor  Faculty of Design Architecture and Building, University of Technology, Sydney.

 

Abstract:
The commodification of forests to permit carbon sequestration and hence trading in the resultant carbon rights is examined as an emerging dispossession of customary and traditional owners’ rights and interests arising from the survival of native title. Indigenous property rights in biota are an important incident of native title, and the disregard of such ownership by national States when creating freestanding legal rights to carbon raises the twin issues of extinguishment, and liability for compensation.

As the developed world moves towards carbon offsets and decarbonisation, the unforeseen cost of such responses to climate change is increasingly being borne by indigenous peoples throughout the world. In Australia, a direct conflict already exists between emerging carbon legislation and the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth.)

 

When

23 February 2010
12:00pm - 1:00pm

Where

Living Lab, Sustainable Development Building
Living Lab,
Sustainable Development Building,
Bond University

Contact Information

For more information please contact:

Dr Lynne Armitage
School of Sustainable Development  
Tel Ext: 52271
Email: larmitag@bond.edu.au