This project is Catherine Clarke’s PhD research, that is based at UCL, and affiliated to CONDJUST. Cat’s PhD responds to concerns surrounding the social implications of 30×30. Specifically, she is considering the negotiation and implementation of Target 3’s “other effective area-based conservation measures” (OECM) designation. She is taking a multi-sited and multi-scalar approach, through (1) event ethnography conducted at CBD COP15; (2) analysis of national level implementation of OECMs in Colombia; and (3) fieldwork in one of the first OECMs in the Amazon biome – a Ramsar site on Ticuna Indigenous peoples’ territory. She is looking at opportunities and risks associated with this new designation for local rights holders, including implications for traditional ecological knowledge and autonomous territorial governance. Her research will offer an important early evaluation of how the 30×30 initiative using OECMs is playing out on the ground in the Amazon.
Cat Clarke
PhD Researcher