In response to the article published on Rondoniaovivo June 1st titled “Permian Brasil: Governo de RO anula contrato milionairo de creditos de carbono apos constatar fraudes”
Permian Brasil completely rejects the characterisation set out in the recent article in Rondoniaovivo. Furthermore, we are surprised and very disappointed that Sedam is working against the Rio Cautário project. It is a project that Sedam itself helped to create, ran the public selection process for, and countersigned alongside every participating family.
Since 2020 we have worked openly, in partnership with the communities of the Rio Cautário Extractive Reserve and within the law, to protect a forest that was, and remains today, under real threat from illegal logging, land invasion and fire. The project has delivered monthly payments for environmental services to local families, created local jobs, and funded fire prevention, monitoring and biodiversity protection across more than 146,000 hectares of Amazon forest.
It is important to be clear about the economics: the project has not generated any income. To date it has been financed entirely by Permian, including the payments to families, the monitoring and the forest-protection work. No public money has been taken and no revenue or profit has been earned. The references to a “millionaire contract” and to losses to the public purse are baseless.
We do not accept the characterisation set out in the decision, and we are appealing it. Our commitment is unchanged: to stand with the families of Rio Cautário and to help ensure this remains a protected forest and a thriving extractive-reserve community.