Pará’s Amazon forest carbon deal in doubt as prosecutors move to block it

The Brazilian state’s contract with foreign governments and companies has run into trouble over concerns it was premature and agreed without consulting Indigenous communities
Quilombo forest consultation
A gathering of forest-rich quilombos in Pará state in the Brazilian Amazon. These traditional Afro-descendant communities and Indigenous territories are guardians of most of the state’s carbon stock - yet they charge they’re being sidelined in construction of Pará state’s carbon credit market. (Photo: TIffany Higgins)

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