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.
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)