Leaders of the Cotuhé Putumayo indigenous reservation, in the Colombian Amazon, say that they do not know about the carbon credit project taking place on their land, which has sold more than 3 million credits. The largest purchaser of credits in the project is a local subsidiary of U.S. oil company Chevron.

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Carbon credits are a scam. Governments and corporations will fail the forest and its inhabitants every time.