The Paris Agreement that emerged from COP21 in 2015 widened a system of exchange of carbon credits—something the oil and gas industry had been demanding for years
Chewing on psychoactive coca leaves in a traditional ritual, Colombian Indigenous leader Fabio Valencia seeks the advice of jungle spirits and ancestors about a project sold to his community as a planet-saving initiative.
In a remote corner of the Amazon, far from COP28 in Dubai where world leaders will thrash out the final parameters for a reform of the global carbon credit system, the 43-year-old told AFP that one such project was destroying his people in the region of Pira Parana.