Subtle Green Grabbing? The Extractive Dimensions of Carbon Offsetting
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4500951 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrea Rizzi (0009-0006-3942-2384, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 88-107 |
| Publication date | 2025-09-16 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American Perspectives (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0094582x251377000 |
| OpenAlex | W4414267011 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 34 |
Among the subtlest forms of contemporary "green grabbing" are carbon offsetting ventures, as most nature-based carbon credits are issued in tropical countries through carbon forestry projects. While it may appear less problematic than the seizing of tangible land, the "scramble for carbon" unleashed by global "green" agendas implies new de facto enclosures-often on Indigenous land-and requires the disciplining of forest communities. Drawing on research in the Colombian Amazon, this paper brings into relief the territorial and extractive dimensions of carbon offsetting, as well as the forms of resistance it generates. Entre las formas más sutiles del "acaparamiento verde" contemporáneo destacan los negocios de compensación de emisiones del carbono, ya que la mayoría de los bonos del carbono basados en la naturaleza se producen en países tropicales mediante proyectos de reforestación. Aunque a primera vista puedanparecer menos problemático que la apropiación tangible de tierras, la "carrera por el carbono" desatada por las agendas climáticas globales conlleva nuevos cercamientos de facto -a menudo en tierras indígenas- y requiere disciplinar las comunidades rurales. Basándose en investigaciones realizadas en la Amazonía colombiana, este artículo pone de relieve las dimensiones territoriales y extractivas de los proyectos de compensación de emisiones de carbono, así como las formas de resistencia que generan
Carbon fibers · Carbon stock · De facto · Global South · Indigenous · Resistance (ecology) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Water Governance and Infrastructure
Landscape
Does Redd+ Threaten to Recentralize Forest Governance?
Forests and Drugs
Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition
Theories of swidden agriculture, and the political economy of ignorance
Carbon loss from forest degradation exceeds that from deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
Environmentality
Friction
Post-conflict transition and Redd+ in Colombia
Redd
Making Markets Out of Thin Air
Internal colonialism and national development
Virtual nature, violent accumulation
Pragmatic conservation
Material Worlds
Selling Success
Land, terrain, territory
Commodifying what nature
Bridging knowledge divides
Assessment of biodiversity goods for the sustainable development of the chagra in an indigenous community of the Colombian Amazon
Governing the ungovernable
Selling Nature to save It? Biodiversity and Green Developmentalism
Policy persistence
Accumulation by Decarbonization and the Governance of Carbon Offsets
Visibility
A climate-smart world and the rise of Green Extractivism
Green Grabbing
The potential perils of forest carbon contracts for developing countries
| Citations per year | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |