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Part two: COP28 host’s favoured carbon credit climate solution a stitch-up for more fossil fuels
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Part two: COP28 host’s favoured carbon credit climate solution a stitch-up for more fossil fuels

In part one of this two-part article series, the Canary reported that UAE-based carbon credit company Blue Carbon LLC – under the patronage of sheikh Ahmed Dalmook Al Maktoum – has been amassing land agreements with governments across Africa and the Pacific. The organisation’s latest land-grab amounts to some 7.5m hectares of exclusive land development rights in Zimbabwe. Now,...

Part one: UAE carbon credit company shows COP28 host dripping in green-grabbing hypocrisy
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Part one: UAE carbon credit company shows COP28 host dripping in green-grabbing hypocrisy

The COP28 climate summit’s host has launched a neocolonial green-grabbing crusade across the Global South. Naturally, it’s yet another nifty ‘net-zero’ carbon con. In part one of this two-part article, we’ll look at how UAE-based carbon credit company Blue Carbon LLC has been amassing land agreements with governments across Africa and the Pacific. Blue Carbon...