Oil-Rich UAE Is Buying Up Large Swaths of Africa for Carbon Credits to Keep Polluting
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As Democracy Now! broadcasts from COP28 in Dubai, we look at how the United Arab Emirates is using its vast oil money to buy up the rights to land in many African countries in order to sell carbon credits to major polluters, a plan that critics characterize as a new form of colonialism. "After failing to mitigate at the source," wealthy polluters now "want to, basically, buy, on the cheap, African land," says Power Shift Africa's Mohamed Adow about wealthy nations' failure to deliver on climate finance and turn to a "land grab" on the African continent. "What they're doing is actually commodifying nature," says Adow, who describes carbon credits as an "imaginary concept" amounting to "permits to pollute."
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My question is... who's selling it? AFRICAN PEOPLE, GET RID OF THOSE CORRUPT LEADERS!
Naomi Klein wrote papers on this decades ago, nobody reads, nobody cares. Greed is our ultimate flaw!
It’s called capitalism!
@@sstarklite2181 nailed it
Simply because someone had foresight about a challenge we are expereincing now, does not mean our turmoil is trivial. We will win this out.
Amy..,Thank you for the years of your hard work and reporting. I’m a 71 year old man. I’ve been watching everyday for years. I get up and have my coffee while watching Democracy Now. The amount of knowledge I’ve learned is incredible.
You and your staff still give me Hope for the future of the children we leave this planet too.
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Me Too love Amy since she is my age .
I'm glad you got to live to a ripe age, at least someone got to.
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this is a Shame & African countries who are being targeted should out right reject this
Their leaders accept money in loan forms and are defaulting.
So it was ok when normies were targeted like this in the name of the scam climate change? What's changed now?
Liberia was First leased by Firestone in the early 1900s for 99 years to grow rubber trees. A project that took place in Vietnam which the French wanted back after WW2 to supply Michelin with rubber. In both cases, the presidents were chosen or bought by the corporations.
And now, all of the land, rivers, and lakes in firestone are polluted. Nothing will ever change.
@@bebetter2082 Don't disagree!
Fascinating... a positive and pragmatic change is needed for current and future continental-African communities impacted by this as well as the environment.
African citizens are passive citizens the question is how to awake them and teach them to take responsibility for their country
It's just so depressing. Why some people lack vision for themselves and their country is devastating. Some African countries should be buying their land and oil fields, not the other way around!! smh. Whoever made these decisions should be imprisoned by the people.
They're corrupted. The citizens get screwed. China comes in and sells loans to Africa, and the leaders accept knowing they will never be able to repay it.
It's over with
💯 the people who agreed these deals are made by corrupt puppets. This disgusting and you are right whoever made this decision should be brought to justice by the people by any means necessary.
Whoever decides to let this climate change scam take hols and affect the "masses" should be imprisoned. Amy would have to go, though.
I need African countries to focus and take back their land and grow in pride and culture culture
focus? you think its that easy? can you fight multi billion dollar entities that will send hit men to assassinate you for coming in the way of their benefits? neocolonialism exists because of power and money, its not that simple. many people have tried
Thank you Amy, Mr. Adow & Power Shift Africa for bringing this important story to our attention and for your continued efforts to expose the corrupt motives of this UAE plan/program. Let us globally unite and stand up against these efforts to abuse African nations and its peoples and keep the pressure on all countries to do their parts in the fight to save and protect our environment.
Colonialism indeed very sad!! 😢
Buy up Africa and fly around in private jets……
“When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers."
Corruption at its worst. Can't they choose not to sell the land?
I hope to goodness the people if these countries protest these sales
I'm born in the UAE. breaks my heart how they've sold out their people culture and principles to hurt their fellow humans and land. I hope with more focus on this issue, renewable/nuclear energy and alternatives become a larger focus of their economic climate plan instead of redevelopment.
Your not Emirati. Your immigrant UAE is buying land rightfully not illegally Liberia sold land to UAE if you don’t like Liberia shouldn’t sell there land
@@project6159 being born & raised in the UAE doesnt mean you are an immigrant, immigrant from where? their mothers womb? youre just bitter someone can have an opinion and have the advantage of being born and raised, in other countries you would be considered a citizen, so your opinion is subjective, also you have alot of research to do. this is not legal, its a globally despised practice and highly criticised. also africa is still a victim of exploitation, as neocolonialism took over after they gained their independence which prompted exploitation of african resources against their will. corrupt leaders cannot be easily removed as any ethical leader will get assassinated. you cannot fight money, power and greed that easily. And this indvl is right, the uae has changed drastically in recent years, gaining more state centered politics and being involved in many war crimes.
I don’t understand, what exactly are these carbon bonds? And how do they offset the UAE’s total emissions?
Yes and what does everyone think China is doing there? We can keep screaming about historical events or we can snap out of this obsession with the past and wake up to what is actually happening right now, this very minute.
China is there in Afghanistan as well helping the Afgans with their oil extracting projects .
China only wants to trade it is not a war monger like EU. or a genocidel maniac like Israel.
Africa needs to unite. All colonials must leave
THIS EMIRATES THINKS ARE VERY DANGEROUS SO BE CAREFUL SLEEPY AFRICAN
The conversation still is not nearly enough on animal agriculture.
@@raccoongirl100 it's got nothing to do with me being a westerner any more than fossil fuels have.
The truth is that, even if we stopped using all fossil fuels, unless we drastically cut back on animal agriculture, we will not achieve the 1.5 degrees target.
Speaking of Africa can you discuss the disability crisis in Ghana soon
How did they Acquire this land? who Sold this land?
Loans that are being defaulted by African leaders who accepted money they never intended to repay.
Well done.
Thanks John Kerry.
Carbon credits not working? How could it be? Our best and brightest came up with the idea, after all.
I believe Harvard grads cause most disasters
If you don't invites the vampire in it can't hurt you
True👍
Wow
I don’t blame the UAE companies, this is on the African leaders that are selling the land
If they can buy it's because somebody sold it.
Can't blame the buyer blame the seller.
Africa is going to be the next Middle East, and I don't meant it in a good way.
Boycott COP.
I thought this was an Onion article at first...
The new scramble for Africa is the perfect description because that’s exactly what it is, not to mention environmental racism.
Chins has already purchased most of Africa.
Get them a "Mogabi".
Buying Africa from who🤔❤️
Carbon credits, translation:
Hocus pocus.
Let me my african people is going to sale it to them so sad.
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Colonial project is there in these countries previously under colonial rule in some form or another .
black people get two gether now get rid of bent African governments,my heart is broken,for Africa,come on people.
I say go solar! There is plenty of solar energy available in Africa!
Africa is paid for already. The leaders accepted outrageous claims from China. When they default they lose land
China is rebuilding Africa-Highways-Airports
Hospitals-Schools etc... CGTN The Point-Hub-Heat, Einar Tangan-Martin Jacques-Lijinjing-Tian Wei Reporterfy-Cyrus Janssen
Great reporting
Why do you only sell the map of Africa for a few seconds?
Africa cannot say no to the $$$$$
The corrup greedy puppet leaders are the problem not African citizens it’s always the leaders who are the sellouts no consideration for the people, corruption is rife in all governments but some African leaders go way to far when money is involved. They don’t think of the damage to land communities and the long term fact that they could eventually be taken over if they sell to much land to outsiders. Greed is a killer of all nations.
Love and peace to all
Happening all over today
😂 Just like Russia SOLD Alaska 😂 for $8m to America & Alaska 😂 has Gold & Oil worth $800 trillion 😂
Love Amy 😘
Democracy please don't say
You see whats happeninf in Gaza infront of all human
Ha