Reuters: Brazil's Attorney General Office has taken legal action against a deal signed between an Irish company and an Amazon indigenous group for the sale of carbon credits from avoided deforestation. A federal attorney in the Amazon Brazilian state of Rondonia filed a lawsuit, seen by Reuters Point Carbon, on December 11, which seeks to cancel a contract signed by Celestial Green Ventures LLC and the Awo Xo Hwara indigenous community. As part of the deal, the Irish company agreed to pay the local...
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