Liberia is set to hand over control of nearly 10% of its total land mass to a United Arab Emirates-based firm in a massive million-hectare carbon credit deal that’s drawing fire from local and international environmental groups. According to a leaked draft of the contract, the deal could override the customary land rights of communities […]
Because Dubai’s royal family got wealthy by exporting fossil fuels, which they continue to do.
They’re desperate to find a way to say “you can keep on burning fossil fuels if you go buy up another country” instead of “we all need to stop burning this stuff”
This is the answer. Concise and clear.
I was being sarcastic. But I wholeheartedly agree. Just more rich and entitled people being rich and entitled.