Connect to share and comment For Brazil nut farmers in the
Amazon, carbon credits could offer new income. This article is
the second in a three-part series that explores the issue of
deforestation and climate change. In part one, GlobalPost
considered how a proposed international carbon-credit
marketcould slash greenhouse-gas emissions and save the world's
surviving forests. Part two shows how indigenous people can
benefit from carbon credits, while part three looks at "carbon
cowboys" accused of abusing the system. PUERTO MALDONADO, Peru —
Sitting on the porch of his ramshackle wooden hut, shaded from
the Amazonian sun by the thick rainforest canopy, Brazil nut
collector Eleuterio Martin admits he has never heard of global
warming. Yet Martin, 73, is now set to play his part in a
groundbreaking new project that could become one of the most
effective ways to curb rising global greenhouse gas emissions.
He is one of hundreds of local people here in the Madre de Dios
region of Peru, near the Bolivian border, wh