-in meeting with international verifiers
Indigenous leaders of the Upper Mazaruni earlier this month expressed their dissatisfaction to an international carbon credits verifier that the government here had not respected their rights to Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) on the matter.
The Upper Mazaruni District Council (UMDC) and Kako Village met with a team from the carbon credits scheme verifier, Aster Global, on Thursday, 9th May 2024. A release on May 17th from the UMDC said that the company has been contracted to audit Guyana’s conformance with the Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART) standard for measurement, The REDD+ Environmental Excellence Standard (TREES).