Sus impactos sobre los pueblos y el planeta

The report argues that nature-based solutions (NbS) and carbon offsetting schemes often serve as a facade for corporate polluters to continue emitting while facilitating land grabbing and violating human rights. It provides numerous case studies across Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the Americas, highlighting systemic issues such as inflated carbon baselines, lack of free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC), and the failure of projects to deliver promised climate or social benefits. The document specifically critiques REDD+ projects, industrial tree plantations, and soil carbon programs for their lack of 'additionality' and their role in undermining food sovereignty and indigenous land rights.

• Nature-based solutions (NbS) are characterized as a mechanism for large polluters to maintain emissions levels while seizing vast areas of land, often ignoring the rights of Indigenous Peoples and threatening food sovereignty.
• In Liberia, a proposed agreement with the Emirati company Blue Carbon would grant exclusive rights to over one million hectares of forest for 30 years, potentially violating Liberian land rights laws and the requirement for free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC).
• The Kariba REDD+ project in Zimbabwe, managed by South Pole, is accused of inflating carbon savings figures; an investigation suggests that nearly two-thirds of the total project's carbon credits (approximately 27 million tonnes of CO2) do not actually exist.
• In the Republic of the Congo, a tree-planting project by TotalEnergies and Forest Neutral Congo has been linked to the expulsion of small-scale farmers from their lands and inadequate community consultation.
• Carbon offset projects in Australia have been found to systematically overestimate benefits, particularly those using 'human-induced regeneration' (HIR) methods, where credits were claimed for vegetation that was never intended to be cleared.
• In Scotland, the 'green rush' for forest and peatland restoration offsets has led to a 61% increase in land values in 2021, exacerbating rural inequality and concentrating land ownership among a small number of owners.
• The Cordillera Azul National Park REDD+ project in Peru is accused of using inflated baselines and failing to account for 'leakage,' while the Kichwa community of Puerto Franco has sued over the lack of consent and land titling.
• In Guyana, the ART-TREES program is criticized for creating carbon credits through accounting manipulations rather than real emission reductions, with over 80% of credits allegedly resulting from such adjustments.
• Agricultural carbon programs by companies like Bayer, Cargill, and Corteva in the US are viewed as tools for 'Big Ag' to control farmer data and promote industrial practices, such as the intensive use of glyphosate, over agroecological solutions.
• Improved cookstove offset projects, such as those by the Indian company Enking, are accused of using flawed methodologies and inflated baselines to generate credits that are up to eight times higher than they should be.

APA

Masson, L. (2023). Sus impactos sobre los pueblos y el planeta. Friends of the Earth International. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Banco-de-evidencia-falsas-soluciones-climaticas_ES_nov-2023.pdf

Chicago

Masson, Lise. Sus impactos sobre los pueblos y el planeta. Friends of the Earth International, 2023. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Banco-de-evidencia-falsas-soluciones-climaticas_ES_nov-2023.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{masson2023sus, author = {Masson, Lise}, title = {{Sus impactos sobre los pueblos y el planeta}}, institution = {Friends of the Earth International}, year = {2023}, url = {https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Banco-de-evidencia-falsas-soluciones-climaticas_ES_nov-2023.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }