The MOUs sound like neo-colonialism; the NBS (Nature-Based Solutions) should read: New B.S. (back end of steer). No mention of true Indigenous consultations or will it be more fortress-conservation? One simply has to figure out how many Rich people need to back a venture to give the impression of respectability, then the money can start flowing in. That's what it's all about, putting a green spin on a huge transfer of wealth, from (the usual suckers) to the already filthy rich.
Blue Carbon will probably take over Kariba as well, now that South Pole pulled out, and the Zimbabwe government is talking with AUE entities. In that case they can basically "buy-in" to a project that has already been issuing credits for decades, and it makes more sene of Wentzel's conviction that the Kariba project will remain running for long to come. They would also immediately receive the unsold stock from 2013 onwards.
The MOUs sound like neo-colonialism; the NBS (Nature-Based Solutions) should read: New B.S. (back end of steer). No mention of true Indigenous consultations or will it be more fortress-conservation? One simply has to figure out how many Rich people need to back a venture to give the impression of respectability, then the money can start flowing in. That's what it's all about, putting a green spin on a huge transfer of wealth, from (the usual suckers) to the already filthy rich.
Blue Carbon will probably take over Kariba as well, now that South Pole pulled out, and the Zimbabwe government is talking with AUE entities. In that case they can basically "buy-in" to a project that has already been issuing credits for decades, and it makes more sene of Wentzel's conviction that the Kariba project will remain running for long to come. They would also immediately receive the unsold stock from 2013 onwards.