An opinion piece from Modern Ghana argues that African carbon producers should be treated as suppliers in a commercial transaction, not recipients of charitable climate finance. It points to Ghana's early Article 6 authorisation and cooperative agreements with Switzerland, Sweden and Singapore, and cites strong demand for biochar removal credits as evidence that the market is real. The author also warns that mixing briquettes, biochar and hemp plastics in one project pitch is a credibility problem, and that measurement, local ownership and signed offtake agreements matter more than press releases. The article is worth reading for anyone tracking carbon market integrity in West Africa. It engages with the common criticisms of offsets, including cookstove additionality concerns and the risk of land being mortgaged in the south while credits are banked in the north. The proposed fix is not novel, but it is concrete: audited tonnage, advance offtake commitments, and revenue shares that reach the families whose land produces the carbon removal.
