Janette Bulkan of the University of British Columbia writes that the government had no authority to sell REDD credits from titled village lands without explicit Amerindian agreement.
December 2022 Official website of Guyana Forestry Commission " $360M approved for forest payment verification fee for the sale of its carbon credits, to the Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART)" https://dpi.gov.gy/360m-approved-for-forest-payment-verification-fee/ while credtis sold to Hess for 750 m $ (almost half is verification fee)
This failure of FPIC mirrors the same government processes here in British Columbia - A government announces a scheme, for instance: rezoning all your lands, announces a “public” meeting, a 1800- number and a web site, and all you see at the “meeting” is predetermined information boards. No roll-call of residents is taken, no vote is held, and the proposal is deemed approved. So the Guyanese government is simply importing these same “democratic” methods. What’s not to like?
Of course the offsets are stolen; and the country is captured without firing a shot. This is a glimpse of the future, when the big corporations have subsumed these lands, one at a time. And with the ongoing mergers/acquisitions, which will be the final three, then two, then one monster corporation?
Thank you for alerting us to this alarming theft and abuse, so typical of the corporate/REDD/fortress conservation complex. This criminal assault and theft on Indigenous peoples cannot stand.
December 2022 Official website of Guyana Forestry Commission " $360M approved for forest payment verification fee for the sale of its carbon credits, to the Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART)" https://dpi.gov.gy/360m-approved-for-forest-payment-verification-fee/ while credtis sold to Hess for 750 m $ (almost half is verification fee)
This failure of FPIC mirrors the same government processes here in British Columbia - A government announces a scheme, for instance: rezoning all your lands, announces a “public” meeting, a 1800- number and a web site, and all you see at the “meeting” is predetermined information boards. No roll-call of residents is taken, no vote is held, and the proposal is deemed approved. So the Guyanese government is simply importing these same “democratic” methods. What’s not to like?
Of course the offsets are stolen; and the country is captured without firing a shot. This is a glimpse of the future, when the big corporations have subsumed these lands, one at a time. And with the ongoing mergers/acquisitions, which will be the final three, then two, then one monster corporation?
Thank you for alerting us to this alarming theft and abuse, so typical of the corporate/REDD/fortress conservation complex. This criminal assault and theft on Indigenous peoples cannot stand.