Green grabbing: Difference between revisions

==Occurrence==

Indebted governments may be especially vulnerable to green grabs, as they may agree to privatize and sell public assets to avoid bankruptcy.{{Cite journal|last=Weeber|first=Stan|date=2016-10-31|title=Nodes of resistance to green grabbing: a political ecology|url=http://ojs.whioce.com/index.php/esp/article/view/49|journal=Environment and Social Psychology|volume=1|issue=2|doi=10.18063/ESP.2016.02.006|issn=2424-8975|doi-access=free}} Green grabs involve large tracts of land consisting of thousands or millions of hectares.{{Cite journal|last1=Scheidel|first1=Arnim|last2=Work|first2=Courtney|date=2018|title=Forest plantations and climate change discourses: New powers of ‘green’ grabbing in Cambodia|url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0264837717312401|journal=Land Use Policy|language=en|volume=77|pages=9–18|doi=10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.04.057|s2cid=158227726 }} Green grabs have occurred in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. [[Environmental activists]] and critics have also warned that the [[Green New Deal]]{{Cite web|last=Douo|first=Myriam|date=2021-06-23|title=Climate colonialism and the EU’s Green Deal|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/6/23/the-eus-green-deal-could-propagate-climate-colonialism|url-status=live|access-date=2021-12-04|website=[[Al Jazeera]]|language=en}}{{Cite web|last=Táíwò|first=Olúfẹ́mi O.|date=2019-02-25|title=How a Green New Deal could exploit developing countries|url=http://theconversation.com/how-a-green-new-deal-could-exploit-developing-countries-111726|url-status=live|access-date=2021-12-04|website=[[The Conversation (website)|The Conversation]]|language=en}} and [[2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference|COP26]]{{Cite web|last=Nguyen|first=Le Dong Hai|date=2021-11-27|title=California’s carbon-offset disaster reveals why COP26 was a big disappointment|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/contributors/valley-voice/2021/11/27/californias-carbon-offset-disaster-and-disappointment-cop-26/8740979002/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-12-04|website=[[USA TODAY]]|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|last=Lakhani|first=Nina|date=2021-11-03|title=”A continuation of colonialism”: indigenous activists say their voices are missing at Cop26|url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/02/cop26-indigenous-activists-climate-crisis|url-status=live|access-date=2021-12-04|website=[[The Guardian]]|language=en}} could exacerbate green colonialism.