Carbon markets paradox and Kenya’s climate action reality

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Carbon methodologies deployed to restore forests often stop paying once the trees are fully grown, unless a new threat emerges. This paradox overlaps with the baseline paradox and the additionality paradox.

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Kenya is positioning itself as a continental leader in climate action, from renewable energy to mangrove restoration and community-led conservation. Yet one part still leaves many people confused: carbon markets.

Not a week goes by without someone asking, “What are carbon credits, and how do they work?”

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Note: The results are not exact but very close to the actual.