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Interview with Andy White, Rights and Resources Initiative: “The global market for forest carbon is not going to establish itself anytime soon”

24th May 2011

Interview with Andy White, Coordinator of the Rights and Resources Initiative, Washington DC, by email.

“I don’t think there should be a debate on that. We involved NGOs in the process of REDD preparation. But Indonesians are part of various cultures so I don’t think we recognize indigenous people. What I know is that in certain places there are communities that still practice their traditional cultures and we respect them.” — Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, head of the REDD taskforce in Indonesia, December 2010 – in response to the question “What about the involvement of indigenous people in the process?”