A Nigerian environmental activist has declared at the first African Climate Summit that carbon markets are “bogus solutions.'
are “bogus solutions,” providing a sharp reminder that not all of Africa's 1.3 billion people support richer countries using the continent’s green spaces to offset continued polluting at home.
“We reject forced solutions on our land,” Priscilla Achakpa, founder of the Nigeria-based Women Environmental Programme, told summit participants on the event's final day. She urged the so-called “Global North” to “remove yourself from the perspective of the colonial past.” The summit has largely featured leaders in government, business and civil society, many of them veterans of other climate gatherings.
Carbon markets, in which polluters effectively offset emissions by investing in tree-planting or conservation initiatives, are cheaper to purchase in Africa than in many other parts of the world where schemes are more strictly regulated. African nations seek a better price to help achieve their own emission-reduction targets.
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