RD: Imperial offsetting à la Macron

Rachel Donald writes:

“I’m not lecturing people. I’m trying to help people to reconcile development and climate change,” said Emmanuel Macron at a press conference in Papua New Guinea on July 28. The French President’s inaugural visit to the nation was part of his Indo-Pacific tour, as he jetted around the resource-rich and cash-poor nations to talk of “a third way” France could offer to countries stuck between global superpowers. After signing bilateral agreements with PNG promoting economic and cultural exchange ...