These market-based offsetting projects and related "nature-based solutions" to climate change have already led to the eviction of many Indigenous peoples around the world and the commodification of their land and resources.
But for this most recent wave of evictions, the Ogiek and many activists suspect that what is happening on their land is linked to a particularly ominous development whose implications extend beyond Kenya to the rest of Africa and much of the Global South: the growth of conservation-based carbon credit markets.
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