Mitigating climate change requires us to constrain combustion in a double sense: decreasing both the use of fossil fuels and the flammability of the biosphere. Fire management by Indigenous peoples in Australia's northern savannas has been presented as a solution to offset the former and assist with the latter, leading to the foundation of a regional economy of projects generating ‘premium’ carbon credits on Indigenous lands. This article attends to the translational zone – predominantly made up of non-Indigenous white professionals – that functions to configure the ‘right story’ of these credits across diverse epistemes and contexts. Following such commodities’ interscalar connections, I suggest, helps illustrate the contingencies and contradictions produced by tradeable carbon, as individuals and organizations seek to maintain a niche within a changing climate and shifting global atmospheric relations.

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标量间维护：在澳大利亚北部（及其他地区）配置本土“优质碳产品”

减缓气候变化需要我们在双重意义上限制燃烧：减少化石燃料的使用和生物圈的可燃性。澳大利亚北部稀树草原土著人民的火灾管理已被提出作为抵消前者和协助后者的解决方案，从而为在土著土地上产生“优质”碳信用的项目区域经济奠定基础。本文关注翻译区——主要由非土著白人专业人士组成——其功能是在不同的认识和背景下配置这些学分的“正确故事”。我认为，遵循这些商品的标量间联系有助于说明可交易碳所产生的意外事件和矛盾，