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Firm seeks carbon deal for Brazilian tribes

By Fiona Harvey, Jonathan Wheatley - Financial Times, Financial Times
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Brazilian tribes should be entitled to billions of carbon credits in return for sustainable management of their forests, according to a new legal opinion from a major law firm.The legal opinion has yet to be tested in the courts but it could open up an important new chapter in the decades-long history of trying to prevent rampant deforestation.