Americas > Indigenous rights group files formal complaint over huge Guyana REDD+ issuance

Indigenous rights group files formal complaint over huge Guyana REDD+ issuance

Published 20:56 on April 14, 2023  /  Last updated at 11:43 on May 23, 2023  / Matthew Lithgow /  Americas, Nature-based, South & Central, Voluntary

An activist group for Indigenous peoples has lodged a grievance with a jurisdictional REDD+ standards body over claims that the Guyanese government did not receive consent from communities to distribute tens of millions of avoided deforestation carbon offsets.
An activist group for Indigenous peoples has lodged a grievance with a jurisdictional REDD+ standards body over claims that the Guyanese government did not receive consent from communities to distribute tens of millions of avoided deforestation carbon offsets.


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