Saturday, July 05, 2014

World Bank and UN carbon offset scheme 'complicit' in genocidal land grabs - NGOs

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/jul/03/world-bank-un-redd-genocide-land-carbon-grab-sengwer-kenya
Plight of Kenya's indigenous Sengwer shows carbon offsets are empowering corporate recolonisation of the South

A Kenyan farmer tends newly planted trees UN's REDD scheme promises carbon offsetting will empower local communities in the developing world while conserving forests - but critics say the scheme is fuelling genocidal evictions of indigenous people from their lands. Photograph: Tony

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