Green initiatives — for example, biodiversity offsets, carbon schemes, protected areas, nature reserves, payments for environmental services, and UN-REDD/REDD+ — have caused negative social impacts to local communities, especially Indigenous peoples. The typical impacts include economic displacement, physical displacement, livelihood impacts, impoverishment, disruption to everyday life and to ecosystem services, and human rights impacts. Community resistance is reflected in various labels: green-washing, green grabbing, green greed, green colonialism, greenshit, carbon cowboys and paper parks. Rather than the protection paradigm of fortress conservation, a different approach is needed in the parks and people discourse. Social impact assessment — the processes of managing the social issues associated with projects — can help green initiatives gain a social license to operate. By effectively managing the social issues, green initiatives will gain acceptability, legitimacy and trust.

绿色举措，例如生物多样性补偿，碳计划，保护区，自然保护区，环境服务付款以及UN-REDD / REDD +，对当地社区，特别是土著人民造成了负面的社会影响。典型的影响包括经济流离失所，人口流离失所，生计影响，贫困，对日常生活和生态系统服务的破坏以及对人权的影响。社区的抵制体现在各种标签上：绿色清洗，绿色抢夺，绿色贪婪，绿色殖民主义，绿色垃圾，碳牛仔和纸公园。除了保护堡垒的保护范式以外，在公园和人们的话语中还需要一种不同的方法。社会影响评估（即与项目相关的社会问题的管理过程）可以帮助绿色倡议获得经营的社会许可。通过有效管理社会问题，绿色倡议将获得认可，合法性和信任。