Ariadne<p>" <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Carbon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Carbon</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Colonialism</span></a>: <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Oil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oil</span></a> -Rich <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/UAE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UAE</span></a> Buys Up Large Swaths of <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Africa</span></a> for <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/CarbonCredits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CarbonCredits</span></a> to Keep Polluting - As <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/DemocracyNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DemocracyNow</span></a>! broadcasts from <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/COP28" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COP28</span></a> in <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Dubai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dubai</span></a>, we look at how the United Arab Emirates is using its vast oil money to buy up the rights to land in many <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/African" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>African</span></a> countries in order to sell <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/carbon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>carbon</span></a> credits to major <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/polluters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>polluters</span></a>, a plan that critics characterize as a new form of colonialism. “After failing to <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/mitigate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mitigate</span></a> at the source,” wealthy polluters now “want to, basically, buy, on the cheap, African land,” says Power Shift Africa’s Mohamed Adow about wealthy nations’ failure to deliver on climate finance and turn to a “land grab” on the African continent. “What they’re doing is actually commodifying nature,” says Adow, who describes carbon credits as an “imaginary concept” amounting to “permits to pollute.”</p><p><a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2023/12/6/africa_climate_land_grabs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">democracynow.org/2023/12/6/afr</span><span class="invisible">ica_climate_land_grabs</span></a></p><p>Thank you Dr Craig Dalzell <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.scot/@thecommongreen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>thecommongreen</span></a></span> for bringing this really important report to our attention!</p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Klimakrise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Klimakrise</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Klima" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Klima</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateEmergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateEmergency</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/LandRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LandRights</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Neocolonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neocolonialism</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuels</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/FossilFuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuel</span></a></p>