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“Carbon Cowboys” Chasing Emissions Offsets in the Amazon Keep Forest-Dwelling Communities in the Dark - Inside Climate News

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Quilombola, an Afro-Brazilian descendent of escaped slaves, live in forested parts of the Amazon. Amazon Carbon, a company that uses commitments to protect carbon stored in trees, invited the heads of sleepy S�o Jo�o, as well as other leaders, to the nearby city of Abaetetuba. Project developers tried to selectively convince local leaders that they were sitting on a goldmine, Queila Couto says.

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“Carbon Cowboys” Chasing Emissions Offsets in the Amazon Keep Forest-Dwelling Communities in the Dark - Inside Climate News

Indigenous and traditional groups in the forest are rarely consulted about carbon credit projects they see as the latest gold rush on their lands, and question the community and climate benefits the projects promise.By Sam Schramski and Cícero Pedrosa Neto“The first time I heard about carbon credits, I didn’t understand what they were about at all,” says Queila Couto, a lawyer, while staring into the Itacuruçá River in the Brazilian state of Par…

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