2025/12/05 by Juliana Gomes Miranda, Sérgio Sauer · 1 voice · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Engineering · Environmental Science · #Amazon rainforest #Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory #Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management #Context (archaeology) #Deforestation (computer science) #Latin Americans #Mining and Resource Management #Natural resource #Sustainability
paper · doi:10.1080/01436597.2025.2588306
published in Third World Quarterly, 1-18 (Taylor & Francis)
openalex created_date 2025/12/05 · openalex publication_date 2025/12/05 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/11
This article examines green extractivism as a contemporary system of accumulation that transforms nature into a financial asset under the discourse of climate change mitigation. It analyses the implementation of carbon market mechanisms in the Brazilian Amazon, showing how these initiatives – promoted as conservation measures – intensify the financialisation of nature and reinforce socio-environmental inequalities. Drawing on field research in Indigenous territories and document analysis, the study reveals how private companies and investors have approached Indigenous and traditional communities to sign carbon credit contracts, often marked by a lack of prior consultation and violations of rights. In reaction, Indigenous peoples and allied organisations have mobilised to resist these projects, demanding the annulment of abusive agreements and asserting territorial autonomy. The article argues that market-based mechanisms reinvent the Amazon as ‘carbon territories’, where land and forests are redefined as carbon sinks for external accumulation. By systematising local political responses and mapping territorial resistances, the study concludes that the carbon market, instead of mitigating the climate crisis, perpetuates historical extractive logics and dispossession under a green guise. In doing so, the article contributes to critical debates on climate governance and socio-environmental justice by unveiling how climate finance mechanisms reproduce colonial and capitalist forms of domination.