Liberia is set to hand over control of nearly 10% of its total land mass to a United Arab Emirates-based firm in a massive million-hectare carbon credit deal that’s drawing fire from local and international environmental groups. According to a leaked draft of the contract, the deal could override the customary land rights of communities […]
Why not just be more green?
Because Dubai’s royal family got wealthy by exporting fossil fuels, which they continue to do.
They’re desperate to find a way to say “you can keep on burning fossil fuels if you go buy up another country” instead of “we all need to stop burning this stuff”
I was being sarcastic. But I wholeheartedly agree. Just more rich and entitled people being rich and entitled.
This is the answer. Concise and clear.