Carbon credit scheme triggers human crisis
Down To Earth|April 01, 2023
THE NORTHERN Kenya Grassland Carbon Project, the world’s largest and first carbon credit programme using livestock grazing practices, might be doing more harm than good.
Carbon credit scheme triggers human crisis

The carbon credit scheme, whose customers include Meta and Netflix, is breaking down “indigenous people’s long-standing traditional grazing systems, and replacing them with a centrally controlled system more akin to commercial ranching,” claims non-profit Survival International in its report.

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