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Blue carbon schemes: conserving coastal areas or commodifying nature?
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The Guardian - The UNFCCC’s ideas to protect and develop coastal ecosystems have been dubbed ‘a false solution’ by civil society organisations, but praised by others
“It is virtually ocean-grabbing, under another name,” says Mads Barbesgaard, chair of political affairs at Afrika Kontakt. “[The idea of blue carbon initiatives] doesn’t tackle the core of the issue that’s driving the climate crisis,” which he believes is pollution caused by transnational corporations and unsustainable industrial techniques.
“Instead, it paints a rosy picture in which transnational corporations can continue to pollute in one place as long as they do a bit of so-called conservation somewhere else, without paying much attention to what conservation actually means to the people who’ve lived off these resources for generations.”
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