carbon credits

Les sociétés de crédit carbone expulsent des communautés à travers l’Afrique.

Donor-designed forest carbon projects and private sector companies like Burapha Agro-Forestry are facing insurmountable challenges from an age-old problem: land tenure insecurity.

Un nouveau business, porté notamment par des multinationales françaises, est en train de voir le jour dans le bassin du Congo, et en particulier au Congo-Brazzaville : de gigantesques plantations forestières sont créées pour générer des crédits-carbone valorisables sur le marché volontaire du carbone ou destinés à compenser des émissions de CO2

Royal London Asset Management has acquired 21,000 acres of prime farmland in a £260m joint venture with South Yorkshire Pension Authority (SYPA); it's first investment into agriculture and natural capital.

At COP28 in Dubai, Nigeria's National Council for Climate Change signed an agreement with France's aDryada for carbon investment projects with Osun State (reforestation of 20,000 ha) and Cross River State (57,000 ha of mangrove restoration).

The Company intends to expand operations in Sierra Leone and will transfer the same model to Ghana and Liberia and other countries across Africa, where approximately 90% of land suitable for restoration is held by smallholders.

Klimat X intends to expand operations in Sierra Leone beyond the 57,000 ha that have been secured to date to at least 100,000 hectares and will transfer the same model to other countries across Africa, starting in Ghana and Liberia

Catona Climate announces that Microsoft has signed a six-year offtake agreement to purchase 350,000 tonnes of carbon removal credits from an agroforestry project in Kenya.

The Swiss-based multinational ASC Impact claims to have acquired 22,000 hectares in Ethiopia’s remote Gambela state along the border with South Sudan for large-scale tree plantations, carbon credits and agriculture.

“I’m there to make money,” Heilberg says. This time with carbon credits.

The rubber plantation, spanning 245,000 hectares along the Sinoe River, offers a unique combination of secondary forest and previously cultivated land, now poised for transformation into a biochar production hub

Cibus Capital intends to buy degraded land and generate revenue with regenerative agriculture, sustainable timber, carbon credits or by making it more productive before selling it.