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Caution Required: Protecting Communities from Carbon Markets

Carbon markets promise quick, easy climate “solutions,” but an ActionAid USA report shows they routinely fail to cut emissions. Instead, they fuel corporate greenwashing, land grabs, and human-rights abuses across the Global South. Developed with our partners in Liberia and Kenya, the report draws on Kenya’s long history of offset projects and Liberia’s emerging deals (notably with Blue Carbon) to expose patterns of violence, livelihood loss, and communities selling their future out of urgent need for revenue. It’s time to demand robust safeguards—and real, grant-based climate finance that truly protects people and the planet.

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