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politics2009-09-15 08:22 pm
the_future_modernes) wrote in politics2009-09-15 08:22 pm
Why am I not surpised?
UGANDA: Carbon Trading Scheme Pushing People off Their Land
MOUNT ELGON, Uganda, Sep 5 (IPS) - As the world's attention increasingly turns to the impact of climate change, at least one project intended to reduce global carbon emissions is accused of displacing indigenous persons from their home in Uganda.
Under carbon trading programmes, companies that release greenhouse gases can either reduce their emissions or buy the right to keep on polluting, by paying for emissions-reducing projects somewhere else.
The United Nations considers carbon markets an efficient system to guide investments toward cutting greenhouse emissions. The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) established by the Kyoto Protocol allows two types of forestry offsets: reforestation of previously forested areas and afforestation, that is, planting new trees where forests have not existed for over 50 years.So whats the problem?