Ecosystem Marketplace: REDD has the potential to slow climate change and improve the livelihoods of indigenous people around the world, but only if projects follow recognized procedures for measuring carbon and respecting the rights of indigenous people, particularly the rights to their traditional territories and customary practices. Legitimate projects do both -- and with good reason. If they didn't, their credits would never be recognized under any existing carbon standard. Illegitimate "projects', however, do...
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