Two American tech giants, Netflix and Meta, are locked in a legal dispute with the Maasai community in Kenya over a land agreement tied to a carbon credit project.
Meta is the parent company of popular social media platforms, Facebook and WhatsApp.
The dispute arises from a deal that allowed the two companies to participate in a carbon capture programme covering 4.7 million acres of communally owned Maasai land. Carbon capture is the process of removing carbon dioxide (CO₂) from the atmosphere or preventing it from entering the atmosphere, thereby mitigating the effects of climate change.
Maasai Morans head to a traditional ceremony in Kajiado in 2016 File In Kenya, there are several projects, and the Northern Kenya Rangelands Carbon Project uses traditional grasslands to trap carbon in the soil, generating credits sold to global corporations seeking to offset their emissions.
