{"id":287721,"date":"2023-11-12T20:20:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T19:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=287721"},"modified":"2023-11-12T20:20:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T19:20:31","slug":"bbc-kenyas-ogiek-people-are-being-evicted-for-carbon-credits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=287721","title":{"rendered":"BBC: Kenya\u2019s Ogiek People are Being Evicted for Carbon Credits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by Eric Worrall<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

More Carbon Credit crimes against humanity?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kenya\u2019s Ogiek people being evicted for carbon credits \u2013 lawyers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Claire Marshall<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BBC Environment & Rural Affairs Correspondent<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kenya\u2019s government is illegally evicting hunter-gatherers from their ancestral lands to profit from carbon offsetting schemes, human rights lawyers say.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hundreds of members of the Ogiek community are being evicted from the Mau Forest, say their representatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ogiek leader Daniel Kobei said armed forest rangers were \u201cpulling down the houses with axes and hammers\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kenya\u2019s government says such operations are to protect the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Justin Kenrick from the Forest People\u2019s Programme said that carbon credits and offsetting were \u201ckey\u201d to what was happening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The developing global carbon credit market<\/a> allows a polluter to emit carbon dioxide or other climate-heating gas and pay a forest owner to capture those emissions through the carbon-absorption power of their trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Kenrick argues that by evicting the Ogiek, Kenya\u2019s government is trying to cement its full territorial \u2013 and financial \u2013 control over an increasingly lucrative asset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThose in control of Africa\u2019s forests stand to earn a lot of money,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Mau is Kenya\u2019s biggest forest and in our view it\u2019s clear that the interest shown by offsetting companies is prompting the Kenyan Government to assert its control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Read more: https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-67352067<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

It is time to boycott any company which publicly declares an investment in carbon credits<\/strong>, just as decent people boycott Chinese goods made by slave labor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carbon credit atrocities against vulnerable native people have been happening for years<\/a>, yet nobody seems to care \u2013 Western companies just keep pouring money into these vile schemes. Western corporate desperation for a little virtue signalling just seems more important to them than the fact some of their carbon credit money is being used to fund committing violence against African villagers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I can understand companies turning a blind eye to\u00a0rampant carbon credit fraud<\/a>. Nobody cares if the carbon credits are fraudulent, except when that fraud is exposed. But what kind of monster can turn a blind eye to people being forcibly evicted from their homes, just so carbon credit purveyors can claim their subsidy farm forest is pristine?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s time to pull the plug on these blood soaked carbon credits once and for all, and to stop associating with businesses which promote or boast about their use.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From Watts Up With That? Essay by Eric Worrall More Carbon Credit crimes against humanity? Kenya\u2019s Ogiek people being evicted for carbon credits \u2013 lawyers By Claire Marshall BBC Environment & Rural Affairs Correspondent Kenya\u2019s government is illegally evicting hunter-gatherers from their ancestral lands to profit from carbon offsetting schemes, human rights lawyers say. 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