TreesForDev - Natacha Bruna and Ossi Ollinaho - How can carbon credits schemes actually exacerbate climate change?

EXALT Podcast

In this episode we are joined by Ossi Ollinaho and Natacha Bruna. Ossi is a project researcher from the TreesForDev project leading the work package that is looking at Mozambique. Natacha is scholar activist and researcher who is doing a post-doctoral project at Cornell University in the Global Development Department, previously she worked at our project partner at Observatório do Meio Rural (OMR), in Mozambique. Natacha coordinated the research line on models of rural development and her research has focused on the impacts of large-scale investment.

Natacha gives us an insight on her take into Green Extractivism and how this plays out in the Mozambican context. She sees green extractivism as a variation of extractivism where what is being extracted is emission rights. Emission rights are extracted from the rural poor and then sold to entities like multinational firms who then have the right to continue to pollute. The privilege of pollution is given to the main actors who are perpetrating the pollution. We explore this dynamic from multiple perspectives.

• Want to learn more about the TreesForDev project? www.treesfordev.fi

• Want to learn more about Ossi’s research? https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/ossi-ollinaho

• Want to learn more about Natacha’s research? https://cals.cornell.edu/natacha-bruna

• Want to learn more about our collaborator in Mozambique, Observatório do Meio Rural (OMR)? www.omrmz.org