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Food health
Stop carbon routinely generate phantom
offsets and result in land
grabbing and human and
offsetting now! Indigenous rights violations
(see below). Recent examples
include the forced relocation of
Ogiek Peoples in Kenya’s Mau
Forest to make way for carbon
Originally published on: climatefalsesolutions.org offset projects and the extensive
sexual abuse at a Kenyan offset
project operated by Wildlife
Press release, 4 December 2023 offsets ever. In the coming Works of the US. Over the past
week, governments will decide months, Kenya, along with
on whether to operationalise Liberia, Tanzania, Zambia and
arbon offsetting has carbon offsets in international Zimbabwe, have signed deals
undermined real climate policy and the UAE with Dubai-based Blue Carbon
Cclimate action, given presidency will hold numerous covering a total of over 24
rise to human rights and promotional thematic events. million hectares of community
Indigenous rights violations lands.
and caused severe harm to The fraud and harms to local
frontline communities for over communities caused by The new frontiers for carbon
two decades. Despite this, carbon market projects have offsetting are based on a race
the UN climate conference been thoroughly documented. to convert agricultural soils
(COP28) currently underway Throughout 2023, academic and coastal and marine areas
in the United Arab Emirates research, media and civil into carbon “removals” that
is set to be one of the biggest society investigations have are alleged by companies to
promotional events for carbon exposed how these projects
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