Forests play a key role in plans to mitigate climate change and reach carbon neutrality by sequestering and offsetting anthropogenic emissions. Nature Climate Change spoke to representatives from Tribal Carbon and If Not Us Then Who about the role that Indigenous peoples living in forest communities play in climate mitigation.
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Nature Climate Change thanks D. Hernández Palmar (staff member at If Not Us Then Who and Wayuu Indigenous) for related discussion on the topic.
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Findlay, A. Climate mitigation through Indigenous forest management. Nat. Clim. Chang. 11, 371–373 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01042-5
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