Environmental Management Through Ecopolitics: An Alternative and Strategic Approach for Rebuilding the Global Carbon Sink

Abstract

Globally, fear of cutting Carbon emissions resulting in degrowth has led to false promises by politicians, particularly at COP26. This, in turn, is mobilising youth opinion and there is a growing civil disobedience. The re-building of the global terrestrial Carbon sink is examined as one of the important options. This is discussed in the context of increasingly restrictive regulation and also looks at the necessity of cash drivers to bridge the gap between action to curb climate change and economic growth. Re-designing regulation and the cost to the state is proposed. The necessary recycling of urban waste is linked to the global youth, including the millions unemployed, using proximity farm and forestry land with the cash drivers necessarily involved. In this chapter, the relationship between financial and environmental sustainability is discussed and a socio-economic conclusion is described which includes a system of reverse franchising and local supervision by members of a professional body.