WorldClimate protection at any price? Africa’s green race

Europeans are investing in carbon-offset projects in Africa as the carbon-credit market booms. The report examines effects on local people: a fisherman in Sierra Leone has lost his livelihood but is waiting in vain for project income; a Ugandan villager was apparently mistreated by forest rangers and forced from ancestral land; and a US climate project in Kenya’s Maasai region is dividing the community.