Americas > Standards body rejects complaint from Guyanese Indigenous peoples over forest carbon project

Standards body rejects complaint from Guyanese Indigenous peoples over forest carbon project

Published 11:53 on May 23, 2023  /  Last updated at 12:39 on May 23, 2023  /  Americas, International, Nature-based, South & Central, Voluntary

The Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART) Secretariat has rejected a complaint from a group representing Guyana's Indigenous peoples that the country's government did not receive consent from local communities to facilitate the distribution of tens of millions of avoided deforestation carbon offsets.
The Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART) Secretariat has rejected a complaint from a group representing Guyana's Indigenous peoples that the country's government did not receive consent from local communities to facilitate the distribution of tens of millions of avoided deforestation carbon offsets.


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