SAO PAULO: In its race to be the first country to sell carbon credits under a new Paris Agreement scheme, Suriname has set a price of US$30 per credit in a bid to raise US$144mil, the country’s environment minister has told Reuters.
The sale would bring much-needed resources to help fight deforestation in a country 93% covered in forests, said Marciano Dasai, Suriname’s Minister of Spatial Planning and Environment.
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