Historic: APRONAD and Arimae Local Congress (Emberá-Wounaan) agree to promote CCB carbon project

Francisco Rivas.

Arimae is a Panamanian indigenous community that incorporates two distinct cultures: Embera and the Wounaan. It is located in the Collective Lands of Arimae / Embera Puru, 210 kilometers from the capital city, oriented to the side of the Pan-American Highway, to the Northeast of Panama. In administrative terms, it is part of the Corregimiento of Santa Fe, District of Chepigana, Province of Darién.

On December 10, 2015, after 40 years of struggle, Arimae and Emberá Puru's 1,300 inhabitants (220 families) were given the title of their collective lands by the National Land Administration Authority (ANATI). These are 8,191 hectares, of which an estimated 4,000 ha. correspond to primary forest.

Considering the favorable conditions created by the granting of ownership of collective lands, the Arimae Local Community Congress, Emberá - Wounaan Collective Lands, agreed to design and implement, with the support of APRONAD, the "Climate Project, Community and Biodiversity (CCB) for the Voluntary Carbon Market (MVC) ".

The Agreement establishes: "... to prepare the technical, legal and administrative documentation necessary to register a Project according to the CCBA methodology, in the VCS Standard (Verified Carbon Standard), using at all times the principle of prior, free and informed consultation and participatory techniques proper to Popular Education". The decision was unanimously adopted by the General Assembly of the Local Congress of the Arimae Community.

The Agreement is signed by Mr. Elivardo Membache R., Nokó and General Cacique of Emberá - Wounaan Collective Lands.

Emberá - Wounaan Collective Land Assembly
commissioned APRONAD to design Voluntary Carbon Market Project 

The Agreement is signed by Mr. Elivardo Membache R., 

Nokó and General Cacique of Emberá - Wounaan Collective Lands.