Today, companies in the Climate Leadership Council—BP, Exxo… - Elizabeth Yeampierre

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Today, companies in the Climate Leadership Council—BP, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips—are going into the Global South to provide resources to these communities so that they can engage in sequestration. To me, that's green colonialism. You basically have these companies that are responsible for creating the conditions the Global South is enduring now benefiting from this.

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Elizabeth Yeampierre is a Puerto Rican attorney and environmental justice leader of African and indigenous ancestry, born and raised in New York City.

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