(English) Indigenous Brazilian group certified to trade carbon credits

• 13.04.2012
• Na imprensa

SciDev.Net – Brazil’s Paiter Suruí community has become the first indigenous group in the country to receive international certification to sell carbon credits in return for protecting and restoring forests in their Amazonian territory. The Suruí community, which numbers around 1300 people, was first contacted by outsiders in 1968. Over the past decade, with assistance from environmental […]