The American company involved in a carbon harvesting project in Taita Taveta is not off the hook over sexual harassment allegations. Instead, two lobbies recommended that Verra, the international organisation that grants carbon credits, halts evaluating and awarding the credits to the Wildlife Works Carbon. Kenya Human Rights Commission and Dutch organisation Somo issued a report last year detailing claims of sexual harassment by bosses within Wildlife Works Carbon, which is based in Kasigau village. The review by Verra was based on self-reporting by Wildlife Works Carbon rather than independent sources that could be trusted. "The information presented in Verra’s report is based primarily on accounts by the same company that allowed these abuses to persist for years.
