On the occasion of the UN Conference on Biodiversity (COP16) in Colombia this week, we've rounded up resources from our cohort of Red Natural History Fellows that can help us understand and break from false solutions and carbon colonialism.

This week, scientists, conservationists, and public officials from 196 countries are in Cali, Columbia for the UN Conference on Biodiversity (COP16), discussing how carbon markets and other so-called “nature-based solutions” to climate change can be implemented at the global scale.

But as governments and corporations throw their faith behind carbon offsets, one thing has become clear: not only are these schemes proving to be ineffective tools for mitigating climate change, carbon offsets are also displacing Indigenous and other local communities living in the world’s most vulnerable ecosystems––clearing the way for further extraction in the lungs of the Earth. (…)