ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the story of how anthropologists are involved and build their cases regarding global interconnections from the bottom up. It focuses on how anthropologists deal with the human issues and problems as a result of climate change, specifically carbon mitigation, carbon offset programs, and carbon trading. The chapter discusses of anthropological work related to carbon sequestration and offset projects as examples of policy-relevant work that practicing and applied anthropologist are undertaking. It argues that the very process of developing the governance of climate change through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was flawed from the beginning because it was heavily influenced by developed countries imposing Western science-based theories of global climate change over the perspectives of developing nations. After a brief contextual history on the status of UNFCCC process, chapter focuses on anthropologists' work in this area. The chapter discusses in the context of environmental anthropology and anthropologists' work in climate.
