What we learned this week

Dubai’s Blue Carbon has now secured land in Africa roughly enquivalent to the area of the UK, ready to sell on as carbon credits to allow it to keep pumping oil. This week CNN noticed. Expect to hear all about this at COP28.

While not connected to Blue Carbon at this point as far as we know, this is the kind of thing I’m concerned is going to happen a whole lot more: the Ogiek people in Kenya’s Mau forest are being driven from their homes and their villages burned to make way for carbon offs...