2026-05-12 11:21 UTC
The latest issue of the Institute of Race Relation's publication "Race & Class" reviews a supposedly “green” and “pro-women’s safety” UNHCR project.
The project is a part of their Refugee Environmental Protection (REP) Fund and uses refugee labour in the Global South to generate carbon credits to be traded on global markets.
The Race & Class issue argues that what the project is really doing is abusing refugee labour to generate carbon credits.
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@statewatch@mastodon.world 2026-05-12 11:21
It is using the labour of those displaced to maintain their own displacement while actually worsening environmental and climate outcomes. Right now, 1.5 per cent of the global population now forcibly displaced. Around a fifth ending up in camp stays from 10 to 15 years. And instead of helping this problem, projects like these increase the likelihood of long-term containment within ‘camps’ governed by the wider logic of the securitisation of migratory flows. https://irr.org.uk/article/the-mobilisation-of-refugee-labour-for-carbon-credits-as-maladaptive-practice/