This investigation examines the reality of REDD+ forestry carbon credit schemes in Cambodia. It explores how these projects, often marketed as solutions for corporate emissions, impact the indigenous communities living within the project boundaries. The report highlights a critical lack of public records regarding local consultation and the tension between international carbon market goals and on the ground human rights.
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REDD+ projects always seem to have a gap between the brochure and the actual field results. This piece looks at how the Cambodian government is pushing new schemes while ignoring the people actually living in the forests.
The issue here is the lack of a transparent registry for community consent. Without a verifiable audit trail of who agreed to what, these credits are basically junk from a regulatory standpoint.
It is a recurring pattern. Corporate buyers want the offset on their balance sheet, but the actual land tenure for indigenous groups is rarely settled before the project starts.
Exactly. If there is no public record of consultation, the additionality of the project is questionable at best.
