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A Brazilian carbon developer and two organisations working with Indigenous communities are piloting a biodiversity credit project in the Amazon state, with two European companies interested in purchasing units after COP16. The pilot is located on a 444,000-hectare area across the Nove de Janeiro and Ipixuna Indigenous reserves, and has been designed by InCarbon with the support of the local NGO Kanindé - Associação de Defesa Etnoambiental and Brazilian startup Meu Pé de Árvore. The aim of the project, which will be launched at COP16 and will run for 30 years once implemented, is to boost the resilience of native communities through the crediting scheme and the related development of 'bioeconomy' practices, Fabiane Tessari Lima da Silva, CP³P-F, CEO of InCarbon, told Giada Ferraglioni. Units will be generated by using the LIFE Institute's methodology for both conservation and restoration activities. "We are teaching Indigenous People how to use tools to monitor biodiversity and how to implement sustainable activities such as agroforestry and seed collection," Diogo Hungria, CEO at Meu Pe de Arvore, added. Hungria said the company is already in touch with several partners interested in purchasing the credits, including Germany-headquartered chainsaw maker Stihl and Dutch airline company KLM. Read and subscribe: https://lnkd.in/dX8MNDZW