While chewing coca leaves in a traditional ritual, Colombian indigenous leader Fabio Valencia consults nature and his ancestors about a controversial project presented to his community as an initiative that will save the planet. In a remote corner of the Colombian Amazon, far from the COP28 in Dubai, where world leaders are laying the groundwork for a reform of the global carbon credit system, Valencia complains about the project, claiming that they are "worse" for his tradition than mining and oil exploitation. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES