Amerindian Peoples Association files a formal complaint with Winrock International about the Guyana government’s US$750 million carbon credit deal with oil company Hess Corporation
Amerindian Peoples Association files a formal complaint with Winrock International about the Guyana government’s US$750 million carbon credit deal with oil company Hess Corporation
In December 2022, Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali announced that the US-based oil company Hess Corporation would buy US$750 million worth of carbon credits generated from the country’s forests. Hess Corporation is one of the companies (along with ExxonMobil and China’s CNOOC) that is extracting oil off the coast of Guyana.
Great article, thanks! This type of "consultations" is typical of governments everywhere: Call a meeting, present their fancy proposals, but no registry of who attended, no roll-call vote, no meaningful input or giving or denying consent. Completely undemocratic. A neo-colonial state can never acknowledge an equal standing with any Indigenous nation.
On 23 May 2023, Carbon Pulse reported that, "The Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART) Secretariat has rejected a complaint from a group representing Guyana’s Indigenous peoples that the country’s government did not receive consent from local communities to facilitate the distribution of tens of millions of avoided deforestation carbon offsets." (https://carbon-pulse.com/204477/ - $$ paywall)
Great article, thanks! This type of "consultations" is typical of governments everywhere: Call a meeting, present their fancy proposals, but no registry of who attended, no roll-call vote, no meaningful input or giving or denying consent. Completely undemocratic. A neo-colonial state can never acknowledge an equal standing with any Indigenous nation.
On 23 May 2023, Carbon Pulse reported that, "The Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART) Secretariat has rejected a complaint from a group representing Guyana’s Indigenous peoples that the country’s government did not receive consent from local communities to facilitate the distribution of tens of millions of avoided deforestation carbon offsets." (https://carbon-pulse.com/204477/ - $$ paywall)