Brazilian Indigenous Leader: Carbon Trading Scheme "REDD" is a False Solution to Climate Change | Democracy Now! | Dec. 10, 2014

Source: democracynow.org



The controversial carbon trading scheme known as REDD, or Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, has set off protests not only in Africa, but also in South America, especially in the Amazon region.

We speak to Chief Ninawa Huni Kui, president of the Federation of the Huni Kui, an indigenous group in Brazil. He has traveled to the U.N. Climate Summit in Lima to voice his opposition to REDD.

Watch all reports from the U.N. climate summit in Lima, Peru on: democracynow.org



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