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Indigenous alliance pulls out of negotiations over ‘flawed’ forest carbon credit standard

News March 08, 2023 / By: Ann Danaiya Usher

An alliance of indigenous groups in Central America has walked out of negotiations over a Norwegian-funded global forest carbon credit standard, saying it fails to ensure protection of indigenous rights. “They are not really responding to our demands,” says the coordinator of the alliance Levi Sucre Romero in an interview with Development Today. Read the inside story about how the communication broke down.

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Levi Sucre Romero is Coordinator of the Mesoamerican Alliance of People and Forests (AMPB).  (Photo: AMPB)

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