African Agriculture (AAGR), a US company planning to grow alfalfa for livestock feed in Senegal, is set to launch an initial public offering on the Nasdaq exchange. But the land concession it holds used to be part of the Ndiaël nature reserve, a wetland that’s home to many threatened species and a key grazing ground for local herders.
A petroleira TotalEnergies aterrissa no Brasil no setor de energia eólica com um histórico de greenwashing, expulsão de cidades inteiras e investimentos em combustíveis fósseis no continente africano.
Marubeni is partnering with the Philippines government and a construction company owned by the billionaire Consunji family to develop a 10,000 ha tree plantation project in Negros Occidental that it says will produce up to 100,000 tons of carbon credits every year.
Des centaines d’agriculteurs ne peuvent plus cultiver leurs champs dans la localité de Ngo, située dans le département des Plateaux Batéké, à 250 kilomètres au nord de Brazzaville, en République du Congo. La raison de leur expulsion : le groupe pétrolier TotalEnergies veut y créer une plantation d'acacias et ainsi obtenir une compensation carbone.
Mediapart dévoile des documents internes au gouvernement congolais et des témoignages prouvant que TotalEnergies s’est approprié des terres d’agriculteurs sans leur libre consentement
Local farmers say they can no longer afford to send children to school after the oil giant’s 40,000 hectare tree plantation barred them from their fields
Total project area covers 25,000 hectares and will produce up to 17 MM tCO2e over life-of-project, with a further 37,000 hectares secured reforestation rights in Sierra Leone
Les marchés carbone exercent une pression foncière énorme sur les terres agricoles ou forestières, explique Myrto Tilianaki, de l’ONG CCFD-Terre Solidaire.
Tandis que la COP 27 bat son plein en Égypte, et que tous les regards sont à nouveau tournés vers cette conférence climatique devenue le grand carnaval des promesses qui ne seront jamais tenues, une question hante sûrement de nombreux Nigériens et Nigériennes : la vente de crédits carbone, va-t-elle procurer le moindre bénéfice pour les communautés et le climat ?
The insatiable thirst for carbon credit schemes has left many smallholder farmer communities in Uganda grappling with the life-threatening effects of violent land grabs
The Australian government's Clean Energy Finance Corporation has committed up to $30 million to a carbon farming fund that seeks to expand its existing 100,000-acre landholding to 500,000 acres.
New podcast, in English, featuring Ardo Sow from the Collectif pour la Défense du Ndiaël
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Down on the farm, Saudi Arabia has a $9.8bn hole to fill
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Iran to expand overseas farming to 2mln hectares by 2029
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Avon Pension Fund to invest a further £150m in natural capital
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Carbon Assets unveils $144m Jigawa wetland project
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