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Legal Aspects of the Surui Carbon Project Introduction Rodrigo Sales 1 Viviane Otsubo Kwon 2 Patrícia Vidal Frederighi 3 This article summarizes the main legal aspects of Surui Carbon project 4 regarding whether the Surui Indians 5 of Brazil may legally be entitled to transact carbon credits for (i) Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emission reductions from reforestation <strong>and</strong> (ii) reduced emissions from deforestation 1 Rodrigo Sales is Partner of Trench, Rossi e Watanabe Advogados, Associated with Baker & McKenzie <strong>and</strong> Latin America Coordinator of Baker & McKenzie Climate Change <strong>and</strong> Environmental Markets Practice Group; he holds a Master of Studies in Environmental Law at the Vermont Law School, USA, <strong>and</strong> is currently a Visiting Fellow of the University of New South Wales Faculty of Law, Sydney, Australia 2 Viviane Otsubo Kwon is Associate Attorney of Trench, Rossi e Watanabe Advogados, associated with Baker & McKenzie International; she holds a Master Degree in International Business Law at Kyushu University, Faculty of Law, Japan. 3 Patrícia Vidal Frederighi is former Associate Attorney of Trench, Rossi e Watanabe Advogados, Associated with Baker & McKenzie International <strong>and</strong> is currently attending a Master of Science program in Environmental Management <strong>and</strong> Economics, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, Department of Economic, Business <strong>and</strong> Law. 4 The Suruí is a Brazilian Indian group that currently has approximately 1,300 members, comprising four clans – Gamep, Gamir, Makor <strong>and</strong> Kaban (hereinafter referred to as Suruí Community) - in the <strong>Amazon</strong> Biome. According to information provided by Forest Trends, the objective of the project is to restore 1,500 hectares of <strong>Amazon</strong> Rainforest within the “Sete de Setembro” Suruí Indian l<strong>and</strong>s, located between the municipalities of Cacoal (Rondônia state) <strong>and</strong> Aripuanã (Mato Grosso state). The project activities will sequester carbon dioxide, while protecting local biodiversity by restoring habitat, <strong>and</strong> contributing to the sustainable development of the Suruí by building local capacity to manage forestry operations <strong>and</strong> through the establishment of an information technology center within the Suruí l<strong>and</strong>. 5 Please note that the use of the terms “Indians” (as defined in the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman, 1987, pg. 533, to refer to the group of native inhabitants of North, Central <strong>and</strong> South America) <strong>and</strong> “<strong>Indigenous</strong> Peoples” are indiscriminately used in several legal documents referred to in this work. However, this distinction is extremely important under the Brazilian Constitution, which uses the term “Indians” to regulate the protection of rights of the Brazilian Indians. See discussion in the decision (“Voto”) of the Brazilian Supreme Court Judge Ministro Carlos Ayres Britto, in items 51-54 <strong>and</strong> 69, available at http://www.stf.jus.br/arquivo/cms/ noticiaNoticiaStf/anexo/pet3388CB.pdf, where the term “Indians” is indicated as the appropriate one to reflect the Brazilian Constitution’s principles regarding the unity of the Brazilian nation formed by three major ethnic groups (Indians, White Colonizers <strong>and</strong> African-Americans). Whenever possible, we will use the term Brazilian Indians in the course of our analysis. Av o i d e d d e f o re s t A t i o n (redd) A n d i n d i g e n o u s p e o p l e s: experiences, chAllenges A n d o p p o r t u n i t i e s in t h e A m A zo n c o n t e x t 125
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