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class="uk-container uk-container-small uk-padding-large"><div class=header-text><div class=post__meta><div class=post__date> Oct 3, 2024</div><div class=post__categories> Carbon markets, Comment, Nature</div></div><h1 class="post__title">Guyana’s carbon-credit deal to protect forests undermines its forest protectors </h1><div class=post__excerpt> Guyana’s Indigenous communities are under siege from all sides – including an opaque carbon-offsetting scheme agreed by the government on our lands</div></div><div class=header-visual><figure class=post__image> <img src=https://cdn.climatechangenews.com/files/2024/10/Guyana-falls-small.jpg class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="Guyana's carbon-credit deal to protect forests undermines forest protectors " decoding=async fetchpriority=high><figcaption>The world's highest single drop-off of water, the Kaieteur Falls, are seen from a natural overlook above the Potaro River in southwest Guyana, on August 9, 2000. 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Essequibo is also the home of many of Guyana’s Indigenous communities, and we are under siege from all sides. </strong></p><p><span data-contrast=auto>To the north, there is oil drilling off the coast. To the west, the Venezuelan army threatens to invade as the government covets </span><a href=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/maduro-orders-the-immediate-exploitation-of-oil-gas-and-mines-in-guyanas-essequibo-region><span data-contrast=none>Essequibo’s natural riches</span></a><span data-contrast=auto>. To the south, fires rage as Brazilian farmers clear the borderlands of rainforest. And in the east, the Guyanese government has traded the rights to the intact forests of the Essequibo for </span><a href=https://www.stabroeknews.com/2024/02/22/features/navigating-guyanas-carbon-market-dilemma/ ><span data-contrast=none>global carbon offsets</span></a><span data-contrast=auto> as well as for </span><a href=https://apnews.com/article/guyana-amerindians-miners-gold-land-59b2dc6d2cf52cf5257bd2541bdfa755><span data-contrast=none>gold-mine concessions </span></a><span data-contrast=auto>– often on the same lands – even though many Indigenous communities live in these territories.</span><span data-ccp-props={"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}> </span></p><blockquote><p><a href=https://www.climatechangenews.com/2024/10/01/colombia-adds-nature-to-the-mix-with-its-40-billion-energy-transition-plan/ target=_blank rel=noopener><strong>Colombia adds nature</strong> to the mix with its $40-billion energy transition plan</a></p></blockquote><p><span data-contrast=auto>The Indigenous communities of Guyana, similar to Indigenous communities around the globe, live in the space between economic development and cultural conflict. And that is only when our existence is acknowledged. My village, for example, is not located on any “official” maps even though we have lived on these lands for many generations.</span><span data-ccp-props={"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}><br> </span></p><p><span data-contrast=auto>But our continued existence must be a priority to ensure the success of climate solutions linked to our forests. </span></p><p><span data-contrast=auto>Guyana’s forests are valued because so many of the 18 million hectares of woodlands within the country’s borders remain undisturbed. Our trees are exceptional for their timber, our soil is rich, and in many places, the mineral wealth underground is unimaginable. And yet, the trees are still standing because of the ways in which we Indigenous Peoples have sustained them and how we live in relation to these forests. No one else cares for these territories in the same way.</span><span data-ccp-props={"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}> </span></p><h3>“Kept in the dark”</h3><p><span data-contrast=auto>As we have kept our territories intact for generations, Indigenous lands, like the Essequibo region, include a large percentage of forests, </span><a href=https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(22)01540-8><span data-contrast=none>sheltering much of the world’s biodiversity</span></a><span data-contrast=auto> and </span><a href=https://e360.yale.edu/digest/indigenous-amazon-carbon-sinks><span data-contrast=none>absorbing large quantities of carbon</span></a><span data-contrast=auto>. But carbon credit transactions that ignore Indigenous land rights sabotage the traditional governance systems and our relationship to nature that has kept the forests so valuable.</span><span data-ccp-props={"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}> </span></p><p><span data-contrast=auto>There have been two rounds of carbon credit sales in Guyana, with payments from international bodies making their way through the government and a few other middlemen until reaching the group of Toshaos (community leaders) who have agreed to the government’s uncompromising terms. The cost of this compliance, however, has been far too steep.</span><span data-ccp-props={"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}> </span></p><figure id=attachment_53290 aria-describedby=caption-attachment-53290 style="width: 800px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img decoding=async class="size-full wp-image-53290" src=https://www.climatechangenews.com/wp-content/uploads/files/2024/10/Mario-Hastings-small.jpg alt width=800 height=583><figcaption id=caption-attachment-53290 class=wp-caption-text>Guyanese community leader Mario Hastings (Photo: Kamikia Kisedje / Nia Tero)</figcaption></figure><p><span data-contrast=auto>We still do not have access to the carbon credit scheme agreement that the government has signed – even for those communities that the government does recognize. All of us are kept in the dark.</span><span data-ccp-props={"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}> </span></p><p><span data-contrast=auto>The international organization that authorizes this carbon credit scheme, the Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART), has </span><span data-contrast=none>rejected a formal complaint made by the Amerindian Peoples Association about </span><span data-contrast=auto>this lack of transparency. And yet, our lands have been given out without our consent and without resolving the issues surrounding the titles to our customary territories. </span><span data-ccp-props={"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}> </span></p><p><span data-contrast=auto>From where we stand, it does not matter if the land grab is for the gold in the ground – where removing it threatens the trees and rivers – or for the carbon in the trees, which must remain standing. We should be allowed to share our opinions and participate in the decision-making. Instead, we are told that the carbon in the trees on our lands does not belong to our people, it belongs to the state.</span><span data-ccp-props={"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}> </span></p><h3>Carbon profits for who?</h3><p><a href=https://www.artredd.org/wp-content/uploads/files/2023/05/APA-Complaint-Letter-March-8-2023.pdf><span data-contrast=none>We have complained</span></a><span data-contrast=auto> that the carbon credit scheme fails to provide an adequate process for validating the carbon, and it does not define who has rights to profit off of the carbon. The scheme’s standards do not adhere to ART’s environment and social safeguards. And our communities’ right to free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) has been repeatedly ignored.</span><span data-ccp-props={"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}> </span></p><p><span data-contrast=auto>Some of the communities were told they could submit sustainability plans, for how they would continue to care for the forests, and in return they would receive payments to subsidize that work and their way of life. But, in doing so, the communities were not surrendering their rights, especially their land rights that the government doesn’t recognize in the first place.</span><span data-ccp-props={"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}> </span></p><blockquote><p><a href=https://www.climatechangenews.com/2024/09/27/amazon-state-that-will-host-cop30-strikes-largest-carbon-credit-sale-in-history/ target=_blank rel=noopener>Amazon state that will host COP30 strikes “<strong>largest carbon credit sale</strong> in history”</a></p></blockquote><p><span data-contrast=auto>Typical of places with a wealth of natural resources that have yet to be exploited, Essequibo is rarely in the lens of global media coverage. Outside interests operate with less restraint when they feel that no one is watching. And so, with the carbon credit markets, Indigenous rights are rarely respected, and no one notices.</span><span data-ccp-props={"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}> </span></p><p><span data-contrast=auto>If we want to stave off the worst of climate change, however, we need tropical forests to remain upright and to do that, governments need to respect Indigenous rights over our lands and the biodiversity, forests and carbon that we protect. We want to be of service through the stewardship of our territories – and all humanity can benefit.</span><span data-ccp-props={"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}> </span></p><hr><p><em><strong>Climate Home contacted ART about the complaint made by the Amerindian Peoples Association over Guyana’s carbon credit programme. ART responded as follows:</strong> </em></p><p class=x_MsoNormal><em>The Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART) is a global carbon crediting program that certifies high-integrity emission reductions and removals from protecting and restoring forests at scale. ART operates at a jurisdictional scale to align with Paris Agreement requirements for REDD+ and ensures social integrity by directly aligning with the UN-defined Cancún Safeguards.</em></p><p class=x_MsoNormal><em>Following an initial complaint submitted in March 2023 by the Amerindian Peoples Association (APA), a thorough review was conducted, which included stakeholder interviews and a close examination of the validation and verification process, determining that ART’s processes had been followed. Subsequently, on October 27, 2023, the ART Secretariat dismissed an appeal made by APA, due to the APA’s failure to comply with procedural requirements. 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In Trump's shadow, IPCC set to decide on timing of climate review" decoding=async loading=lazy></figure> </a></div><div class=header-text><div class=post__meta><div class=post__date> Feb 21, 2025</div><div class=post__categories> <a href=https://www.climatechangenews.com/category/news/ >News</a></div></div><h3 class="post__title"><a href=https://www.climatechangenews.com/2025/02/21/in-trumps-shadow-ipcc-set-to-make-key-decision-on-timing-of-climate-science-review/ rel=bookmark>In Trump’s shadow, IPCC set to make key decision on timing of climate science review</a></h3><div class=post__excerpt> With the US not expected to show up at the IPCC meeting, countries have a final chance to agree whether assessment reports could inform the next UN scorecard of climate action</div><div class=post__footer> <a href=https://www.climatechangenews.com/2025/02/21/in-trumps-shadow-ipcc-set-to-make-key-decision-on-timing-of-climate-science-review/ class=read-more>Read more</a></div></div></header></article><article id=post-67853 class="post-67853 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-energy category-news tag-imo tag-international-maritime-organisation tag-shipping tag-trade"><header class=post__header><div class=header-visual><a href=https://www.climatechangenews.com/2025/02/21/global-tax-on-shipping-emissions-faces-choppy-waters-despite-growing-support/ rel=bookmark><figure class=post__image> <img src=https://cdn.climatechangenews.com/files/2025/02/China-ship_QINGDAO-PORT-scaled.jpg class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Tax on shipping emissions at risk despite growing support" decoding=async loading=lazy></figure> </a></div><div class=header-text><div class=post__meta><div class=post__date> Feb 21, 2025</div><div class=post__categories> <a href=https://www.climatechangenews.com/category/news/ >News</a></div></div><h3 class="post__title"><a href=https://www.climatechangenews.com/2025/02/21/global-tax-on-shipping-emissions-faces-choppy-waters-despite-growing-support/ rel=bookmark>Global tax on shipping emissions faces choppy waters despite growing support</a></h3><div class=post__excerpt> A proposed levy gains new backers at IMO talks in London this week, but big emerging economies argue it will hit developing nations hard</div><div class=post__footer> <a href=https://www.climatechangenews.com/2025/02/21/global-tax-on-shipping-emissions-faces-choppy-waters-despite-growing-support/ class=read-more>Read more</a></div></div></header></article><article id=post-67939 class="post-67939 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-nature category-news tag-colombia tag-cop16 tag-nature"><header class=post__header><div class=header-visual><a href=https://www.climatechangenews.com/2025/02/21/cop16-host-colombia-reports-35-surge-in-deforestation/ rel=bookmark><figure class=post__image> <img src=https://cdn.climatechangenews.com/files/2025/02/2025-02-20T150536Z_1_LYNXNPEL1J0K7_RTROPTP_4_COLOMBIA-DEFORESTATION-scaled.jpg class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="View of a deforested area in the middle of the Yari plains, in Caqueta" decoding=async loading=lazy></figure> </a></div><div class=header-text><div class=post__meta><div class=post__date> Feb 21, 2025</div><div class=post__categories> <a href=https://www.climatechangenews.com/category/news/ >News</a></div></div><h3 class="post__title"><a href=https://www.climatechangenews.com/2025/02/21/cop16-host-colombia-reports-35-surge-in-deforestation/ rel=bookmark>COP16 host Colombia reports 35% surge in deforestation</a></h3><div class=post__excerpt> Despite the uptick in deforestation, Colombian environment minister Susana Muhamad said 2024 still had the second-lowest deforestation figure in two decades</div><div class=post__footer> <a href=https://www.climatechangenews.com/2025/02/21/cop16-host-colombia-reports-35-surge-in-deforestation/ class=read-more>Read more</a></div></div></header></article><article id=post-67911 class="post-67911 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-finance category-news tag-climate-finance tag-green-climate-fund"><header class=post__header><div class=header-visual><a href=https://www.climatechangenews.com/2025/02/21/after-us-retreat-countries-clash-over-who-should-make-up-green-climate-fund-shortfall/ rel=bookmark><figure class=post__image> <img src=https://cdn.climatechangenews.com/files/2019/10/GCF-project-picture.jpg class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Woman in field Green Climate Fund" decoding=async loading=lazy></figure> </a></div><div class=header-text><div class=post__meta><div class=post__date> Feb 21, 2025</div><div class=post__categories> <a href=https://www.climatechangenews.com/category/news/ >News</a></div></div><h3 class="post__title"><a href=https://www.climatechangenews.com/2025/02/21/after-us-retreat-countries-clash-over-who-should-make-up-green-climate-fund-shortfall/ rel=bookmark>After US retreat, countries clash over who should make up Green Climate Fund shortfall</a></h3><div class=post__excerpt> At this week’s board meeting, Germany and Sweden encouraged wealthier developing nations to step up – an idea rejected by Saudi Arabia</div><div class=post__footer> <a href=https://www.climatechangenews.com/2025/02/21/after-us-retreat-countries-clash-over-who-should-make-up-green-climate-fund-shortfall/ class=read-more>Read more</a></div></div></header></article><article id=post-67866 class="post-67866 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-comment category-nature tag-biodiversity tag-cop16"><header class=post__header><div class=header-visual><a href=https://www.climatechangenews.com/2025/02/21/how-cop16-2-0-can-unlock-business-investment-to-properly-fund-nature/ rel=bookmark><figure class=post__image> <img src=https://cdn.climatechangenews.com/files/2025/02/54105186772_f5f689771a_c.jpg class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="COP16 plenary in Cali, Colombia, on 30th October, 2024. (Photo: UN Biodiversity) Can COP16 2.0 unlock business investment to fund nature?" decoding=async loading=lazy></figure> </a></div><div class=header-text><div class=post__meta><div class=post__date> Feb 21, 2025</div><div class=post__categories> <a href=https://www.climatechangenews.com/category/comment/ >Comment</a></div></div><h3 class="post__title"><a href=https://www.climatechangenews.com/2025/02/21/how-cop16-2-0-can-unlock-business-investment-to-properly-fund-nature/ rel=bookmark>How COP16 2.0 can unlock business investment to properly fund nature</a></h3><div class=post__excerpt> Biodiversity COP16 ended with vague targets and limited accountability — but its resumed session in Rome provides an opportunity for businesses to step up</div><div class=post__footer> <a href=https://www.climatechangenews.com/2025/02/21/how-cop16-2-0-can-unlock-business-investment-to-properly-fund-nature/ class=read-more>Read more</a></div></div></header></article><article id=post-67881 class="post-67881 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-energy category-nature category-news category-politics tag-brazil tag-cop30 tag-fossil-fuels"><header class=post__header><div class=header-visual><a href=https://www.climatechangenews.com/2025/02/20/lulas-government-pushes-for-new-oil-drilling-in-the-amazon-cop-30/ rel=bookmark><figure class=post__image> <img src=https://cdn.climatechangenews.com/files/2025/02/2025-02-14T000000Z_1828976543_MT1SIPA0000BFXHF_RTRMADP_3_SIPA-USA-1-scaled.jpg class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced more federal investments for COP30 in Belém, PA, Brazil, on February 14, 2025. Inside the São Brás Market, a COP30 project that has already been completed, the president announced an additional R$250 million from BNDES (National Bank for Economic and Social Development) to finance macro-drainage and urbanization projects in the capital of Pará. In addition, investments in ports and airports in the state of Pará were highlighted." decoding=async loading=lazy></figure> </a></div><div class=header-text><div class=post__meta><div class=post__date> Feb 20, 2025</div><div class=post__categories> <a href=https://www.climatechangenews.com/category/news/ >News</a></div></div><h3 class="post__title"><a href=https://www.climatechangenews.com/2025/02/20/lulas-government-pushes-for-new-oil-drilling-in-the-amazon-cop-30/ rel=bookmark>Lula’s government pushes for new oil drilling in the Amazon – where it will host COP30</a></h3><div class=post__excerpt> Pressure mounts on Brazil’s environmental agency as the government seeks expedited approval of a controversial oil drilling project</div><div class=post__footer> <a href=https://www.climatechangenews.com/2025/02/20/lulas-government-pushes-for-new-oil-drilling-in-the-amazon-cop-30/ class=read-more>Read more</a></div></div></header></article><article id=post-67836 class="post-67836 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-energy category-news tag-bp tag-fossil-fuel tag-shell"><header class=post__header><div class=header-visual><a href=https://www.climatechangenews.com/2025/02/20/big-polluters-funnel-75-of-profits-to-shareholders-not-clean-energy/ rel=bookmark><figure class=post__image> <img src=https://cdn.climatechangenews.com/files/2025/02/13334094365_4918b3aff2_c.jpg class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Oil rig. big polluters clean energy" decoding=async loading=lazy></figure> </a></div><div class=header-text><div class=post__meta><div class=post__date> Feb 20, 2025</div><div class=post__categories> <a href=https://www.climatechangenews.com/category/news/energy/ >Energy</a></div></div><h3 class="post__title"><a href=https://www.climatechangenews.com/2025/02/20/big-polluters-funnel-75-of-profits-to-shareholders-not-clean-energy/ rel=bookmark>Big polluters funnel 75% of profits to shareholders, not clean energy</a></h3><div class=post__excerpt> Research by Friends of the Earth found that Europe’s top high-carbon firms have handed shareholders most of their profits in the last 13 years – now they want public handouts</div><div class=post__footer> <a href=https://www.climatechangenews.com/2025/02/20/big-polluters-funnel-75-of-profits-to-shareholders-not-clean-energy/ class=read-more>Read more</a></div></div></header></article><article id=post-67815 class="post-67815 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-energy category-news category-politics tag-japan tag-mitigation tag-ndc"><header class=post__header><div class=header-visual><a href=https://www.climatechangenews.com/2025/02/19/japan-disregarded-widespread-calls-to-raise-its-2035-emissions-goal/ rel=bookmark><figure class=post__image> <img src=https://cdn.climatechangenews.com/files/2025/02/2022-09-23T000000Z_1629289669_RC2UMW9CGFVK_RTRMADP_3_CLIMATE-CHANGE-GLOBAL-PROTESTS-scaled.jpg class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="People raise placards as they take part in a global climate protest march, at Omotesando district in Tokyo. Japan disregarded calls to raise its 2035 emissions goal" decoding=async loading=lazy></figure> </a></div><div class=header-text><div class=post__meta><div class=post__date> Feb 19, 2025</div><div class=post__categories> <a href=https://www.climatechangenews.com/category/news/energy/ >Energy</a></div></div><h3 class="post__title"><a href=https://www.climatechangenews.com/2025/02/19/japan-disregarded-widespread-calls-to-raise-its-2035-emissions-goal/ rel=bookmark>Japan disregarded widespread calls to raise its 2035 emissions goal </a></h3><div class=post__excerpt> Around four-fifths of public comments had called for more ambition – but Tokyo said inputs had not changed its view that a 60% cut is enough</div><div class=post__footer> <a href=https://www.climatechangenews.com/2025/02/19/japan-disregarded-widespread-calls-to-raise-its-2035-emissions-goal/ class=read-more>Read more</a></div></div></header></article></div></div></div></div></div></div></section></article></main><footer 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