Rainforest aid

Seminar

Tropical forest carbon markets and the Indigenous critique

This seminar, organised by Development Today and the Norwegian University for Life Sciences (NMBU), took place on August 20, 2025, at Litteraturhuset in Oslo. What follows is the programme and a full edited transcript of the seminar proceedings.

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