The idea of ‘equity’, largely grounded in Western legal tradition, has come to permeate evaluations of what is fair and just within environmental governance programmes. But what constitutes equity in climate change and conservation projects? And does everyone affected by such projects see equity as desirable? Local encounters with global environmental governance interventions in Suau, Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea, provide an entry point to explore these questions. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with communities implicated in the Central Suau Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) Pilot Project and in Save the Forest conservation projects, we examine tensions around conceptions of equity and equality between project proponents and local communities, as well as between individuals within those communities. By paying attention to talk about pigs in Suau, and tracing the intersections between reciprocity and trade, we explore how people negotiate equity and equality. We emphasize that this negotiation is central to Suau ideas of fairness. While the REDD+ and Save the Forest projects work to ensure ‘equitable’ distribution of benefits among supposedly equivalent actors, we show how this may actually close down possibilities for negotiation of outcomes that local people consider fair.

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关注猪：巴布亚新几内亚苏奥全球环境治理中的公平与平等谈判

很大程度上植根于西方法律传统的“公平”理念已经渗透到环境治理计划中对公平和公正的评估中。但是什么构成了气候变化和保护项目的公平性？受此类项目影响的每个人都认为公平是可取的吗？巴布亚新几内亚米尔恩湾省苏奥当地与全球环境治理干预措施的接触，为探索这些问题提供了切入点。借助与苏奥中部减少森林砍伐和森林退化 (REDD+) 试点项目和拯救森林保护项目有关的社区的民族志实地调查，我们研究了项目支持者和当地社区之间围绕公平和平等概念的紧张关系，以及这些社区内的个人之间。通过关注在苏奥谈论猪，并追溯互惠与贸易之间的交集，我们探索人们如何谈判公平和平等。我们强调，这次谈判是苏奥公平理念的核心。虽然 REDD+ 和拯救森林项目致力于确保在假定的等效参与者之间“公平”分配利益，但我们展示了这实际上可能如何关闭当地人认为公平的结果谈判的可能性。