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Kenya land rights dispute spills over into carbon market -media

Published 17:29 on November 9, 2023 / Last updated at 17:29 on November 9, 2023 / / Nature-based Carbon (Forestry), Voluntary (VCM Governance), Africa

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Long-running tensions between the Kenyan government and the Indigenous people of the Mau Forest in the country may have spilled over into the carbon market, with reported claims by human rights lawyers that hundreds of members of the Ogiek community are being evicted from their ancestral lands so the government can profit from carbon credit projects.
Long-running tensions between the Kenyan government and the Indigenous people of the Mau Forest in the country may have spilled over into the carbon market, with reported claims by human rights lawyers that hundreds of members of the Ogiek community are being evicted from their ancestral lands so the government can profit from carbon credit projects.


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