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 […]
    • @[email protected]OPMEnglish
      4•1 year ago

      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”

      • @TokenBoomer
        2•1 year ago

        This is the answer. Concise and clear.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•1 year ago

        I was being sarcastic. But I wholeheartedly agree. Just more rich and entitled people being rich and entitled.

  • @[email protected]
    1•1 year ago

    As soon as I heard about this deal last week it sounded immensely problematic. This is going to be a human rights disaster with marginal environmental benefit.