i think it's important to state for people that in the process of enclosing these forests for the creation of carbon credits, what happened is that often local people and indigenous people were pushed out of these forests. And so i think that also points to how, in this kind of framing of net zero, and this idea of using the carbon credits as the way to allow the reduction of omissions, what you have is the global north exporting the need to reduce its omissions on to the global south. So even though language around inditions, rits, human rights made it into a the climate pact, it isnit a sense of what i just told you about rigt.
Paris Marx is joined by Sabrina Fernandes to discuss what came out of COP26, what it actually means to have net-zero emissions by 2050, and all the mechanisms that countries are developing to delay necessary action to reduce emissions.
Sabrina Fernandes is an IRGAC postdoctoral fellow at Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. She’s the producer of Tese Onze and a contributing editor at Jacobin. Follow Sabrina on Twitter at @safbf.
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