Carbon credits are dispossessing African communities

Carbon credits are never commensurate with the effects arising from the trade-off, and ensure the continued use of fossil fuels by the wealthy.

Carbon credit land grab dispossesses Global South communities

Communal lands the combined size of Portugal have been taken over by corporate interests for carbon offsetting schemes across the Global South.

Carbon markets and the new scramble for African land - ROAPE

The very solutions intended to safeguard our planet are, in reality, perpetuating colonial-era land grabs, dispossessing local communities, and ...

Laundering Carbon—The Gulf's 'New Scramble for Africa' - MERIP

Carbon offsets involve forest protection and other environmental schemes that are equated to a certain quantity of carbon “credits.” These credits can then be ...

'How are we going to live?' Families dispossessed of their land to ...

However, he claimed that carbon credit projects could not be accredited without extensive public consultation with affected communities, and ...

Carbon credits are harming African communities

This is about 10 per cent of the country's land. The plan is to create protected forests to make carbon credits for sale or trade between ...

Africa is chasing billions - Carbon credits - dandc.eu

As of 2023, the global market for carbon credits is estimated to be worth almost $ 403 billion, according to a study by InsightAce Analytic.

A Critique of “Greenwashing” Lawsuits and Additional Litigation ...

However, this rise of net-zero pledges and the corresponding spike in demand for carbon offsets should not be celebrated. Offsetting schemes ...

Land deals in Africa prompt concerns for local communities - EHN

Blue Carbon's conservation strategy involves acquiring large land areas in Africa, intending to sell carbon credits, a move critics dub "carbon ...

Solomon Islands Tribes Sell Carbon Credits, Not Their Trees

In a South Pacific nation ravaged by logging, several tribes joined together to sell “high integrity” carbon credits on international markets.

The Scramble for African Carbon Credits — Should Governments ...

Host governments for carbon-credit projects are trying to ensure as much revenue as possible stays in the country and benefits the local ...

Status of Legal Recognition of Indigenous Peoples', Local ...

the carbon offsets generated by their community lands.23. Facilitated by ... African Historically Underserved Traditional Local. Communities' lives). 58 ...

Carbon Colonialism: How the Fight Against Climate Change ... - VICE

Carbon trading—one of the biggest weapons touted by governments and business in the global fight against climate change—could end up killing the ...

Full article: Are forest carbon projects in Africa green but mean?

(Citation2011) discovered that forest conservation in the state of Oaxaca in Mexico led to decreased subsistence crop yields and, combined with a hunting ban, ...

Evicted for Carbon Credits: Norway, Sweden, and Finland Displace ...

Evicted for Carbon Credits: Norway, Sweden, and Finland Displace Ugandan Farmers for Carbon Trading, brings forward irrefutable evidence ...

How carbon market pirates are threatening the territories of more ...

To defend their customary rights in the absence of collective land titles, the communities have launched a multi-faceted advocacy campaign with RRI's support.

In-depth Q&A: Can 'carbon offsets' help to tackle climate change?

... African nations have issued just 1% of the credits on the market. ... communities should be the holders and owners of the carbon offset projects.

New enclosures of the carbon market, Part I: Sub-Saharan 'land ...

Here the rationale behind carbon credits is reversed, with imaginations for change which direct responsibility proportionally towards countries ...

Dispossessed by decarbonisation: Reducing vulnerability, injustice ...

This study examines the justice and equity implications of four low-carbon transitions, and it reveals the “lived experiences” of decarbonisation as manifested ...

Creating credible carbon market in Africa | Africa Renewal

The world's largest carbon market auction was held last June in Nairobi, where more than 2.2 million tonnes of carbon credits sold. Raphael ...