Hello - I am the one that went out to Kariba to see how $30 million of community benefits were spent and I saw virtually nothing. I then went to the government and they had no idea about this project. And then I called the reporters and inform them that their original stories needed the part two as the communities never received. To their credit, follow the money, went out there to verify what I was saying. Then they rewrite the story. I’ve written a complete book on this and did a TED talk called carbon credit are crap. Some of your facts aren’t right in the right order but that’s OK for the most part. It’s correct. To this day, the Caribe community can’t even afford pencils for their kids in school. The tragedy is south Pole walked away with their money carbon. Green walked away with the community and their own money and yet no one is paying the price other than the people in the ground.
Hi Jaye - Thanks for this and for the link to your TEDx talk! I'm looking forward to reading your book (and asking myself how come I've only just heard of a book with the title "Carbon Credits are Crap" - https://lidpublishing.com/books/carbon-credits-are-crap/). I'll write a review when I've read it.
By the way, you write that "Some of your facts aren’t right in the right order" - I'd be happy to correct any specific mistakes if you could point them out. Thanks!
You really have to, err, credit Verra with coming up with the idea that in order to 'compensate' for the 15 million fake credits the project developer has to buy a *different* 15 million fake credits from Verra's registry, which is groaning under the weight of fake credits due to years of over-crediting across the portfolio.
Hi Chris, thank you for keeping us all updated about the Carbon Credit scams. I would like to let you know that we have produced with Flinn Works (Berlin) a theatre performance about Carbon Credits called "Carbon Negative - compensation performance", including the story of Kariba/South Pole. We are only performing it in Germany at the moment, but hope to produce an english version next year. Here you will find some information and a trailer: https://flinnworks.de/en/carbon-negative (don't be shocked by the PR text - we try to lure people into the play claiming it is carbon negative - spoiler: it is not - the play is actually very critical of the carbon market)
Hello - I am the one that went out to Kariba to see how $30 million of community benefits were spent and I saw virtually nothing. I then went to the government and they had no idea about this project. And then I called the reporters and inform them that their original stories needed the part two as the communities never received. To their credit, follow the money, went out there to verify what I was saying. Then they rewrite the story. I’ve written a complete book on this and did a TED talk called carbon credit are crap. Some of your facts aren’t right in the right order but that’s OK for the most part. It’s correct. To this day, the Caribe community can’t even afford pencils for their kids in school. The tragedy is south Pole walked away with their money carbon. Green walked away with the community and their own money and yet no one is paying the price other than the people in the ground.
Hi Jaye - Thanks for this and for the link to your TEDx talk! I'm looking forward to reading your book (and asking myself how come I've only just heard of a book with the title "Carbon Credits are Crap" - https://lidpublishing.com/books/carbon-credits-are-crap/). I'll write a review when I've read it.
By the way, you write that "Some of your facts aren’t right in the right order" - I'd be happy to correct any specific mistakes if you could point them out. Thanks!
https://youtu.be/0VTQ_RtK3y8?si=hytvUgxtk4g2TkEu
You really have to, err, credit Verra with coming up with the idea that in order to 'compensate' for the 15 million fake credits the project developer has to buy a *different* 15 million fake credits from Verra's registry, which is groaning under the weight of fake credits due to years of over-crediting across the portfolio.
Hi Chris, thank you for keeping us all updated about the Carbon Credit scams. I would like to let you know that we have produced with Flinn Works (Berlin) a theatre performance about Carbon Credits called "Carbon Negative - compensation performance", including the story of Kariba/South Pole. We are only performing it in Germany at the moment, but hope to produce an english version next year. Here you will find some information and a trailer: https://flinnworks.de/en/carbon-negative (don't be shocked by the PR text - we try to lure people into the play claiming it is carbon negative - spoiler: it is not - the play is actually very critical of the carbon market)
Thanks for this Konradin! I've just done a post promoting your next performance:
https://reddmonitor.substack.com/p/carbon-negative-a-theatre-performance
Thank you!