REDD-Monitor’s top ten posts in 2022
2022 saw droughts, floods, hurricanes, and storms. More than 7 million people were displaced by floods in Pakistan.
Hurricane Ian resulted in widespread damage in Cuba and the southeast of the US. The drought in Europe was the continent’s worst in 500 years. China saw both floods and droughts. Brazil faced the worst drought for decades which lasted most of the year. Predictably enough, COP27 achieved nothing to address the climate crisis.
Here are REDD-Monitor’s top ten posts in 2022. Click on the headlines to read the posts:
1. Peter Virdee sentenced to more than three years in prison for his role in carbon credit VAT fraud
2. Sadhguru: How not to save soil
7. How to burn the planet. Shell invests US$38 million in Carbonext, Brazil’s biggest REDD offset firms
8. Global Forestry Investments scam: Andrew Skeene and Omari Bowers sentenced to 11 years in prison
9. Gabon plans the world’s biggest ever issue of carbon credits. By logging its forests
10. James Moore sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for his role in the Bar Works scam