Kenya carbon offsetting project has ‘serious failings’, report finds

As part of its “Blood Carbon” campaign, human rights group Survival International has alleged in a report that a soil carbon project in Kenya does “not present a credible case for its carbon additionality”.

The Northern Kenya Grassland Carbon Project, which began in 2013, seeks to enable greater vegetation growth in an area covering nearly 2mn hectares by replacing traditional grazing with “planned rotational grazing”. In turn, it says, this will produce a greater storage of carbon and store up to 50mn tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent over 30 years.