Climate Change: The Green Transition’s Dirty Secret: How Climate Projects Are Stripping Indigenous Land Rights

Jun 6, 2026 | Utkarsh Mishra
CounterCurrents
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There is a version of the green transition that appears in corporate sustainability reports and climate conference presentations: renewable energy scaled at speed, forests preserved through carbon markets, critical minerals extracted for batteries and turbines, a net-zero future delivered on schedule. Then there is the version unfolding across the Global South — where Indigenous communities are losing land to the same “climate solutions” celebrated in those reports, often without their knowledge and almost always without their consent.