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The unravelling of Aspiration and the arrest of Ibrahim AlHusseini. “Clean rich is the new filthy rich”
An investor allegedly lost more than US$150 million. “AlHusseini personally received more than $12 million in ill-gotten gains,” according to court…
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The Tohmle Statement: Stop “carbon credit and so called ‘green’ or ‘clean’ energy projects on our lands, territories and waters” without…
The Tohmle Statement was developed at the fourth Indigenous Knowledge and Peoples of Asia Conference on Indigenous Peoples’ Rights, Biodiversity and…
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US$180 million worth of carbon credits for sale to Big Polluters from the state of Pará, Brazil
Prices are backed by the governments of Norway, UK, and US.
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Ken Newcombe, ex-CEO of C-Quest Capital, faces criminal charges for multi-year carbon credit fraud
“The charges are a blow to the carbon offset development industry.”
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“Various types of carbon credits are ineffective,” says the Science Based Targets initiative
SBTi’s synthesis report on the effectiveness of carbon credits is a “bombshell rebuke to offsets”.
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Out of the frying pan and into the fire: The United Nations opposes voluntary carbon credits, while proposing carbon trading under Article 6…
The Financial Times reports on a draft policy document from the UN that spells disaster.
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Rabobank’s tree planting project in Côte d’Ivoire overestimates carbon credits by 600%. Microsoft is one of the buyers of these credits
No provable additionality. And double counting.
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SavePlanetEarth launches Planetary Carbon Standard: “We are the pioneers in this side of the carbon credit industry”
Cryptocurrency, NFTs, blockchain, conflicts of interest, a fake baseline, and millions of fake carbon credits
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Carbon credit investment scammer Paul Seakens forced to repay £1 million to victims
Seakens also sent £3.2 million to overseas accounts
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Scammers claiming to be from Horizon Capital Management, United Capital Finance, or Premier Group Finance are running a recovery room scam
People who lost money to a carbon credits as investments scam more than a decade ago are still being contacted by scammers
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Mordecai Ogada: “Carbon credits are a scam. Probably the biggest scam visited on mankind in history”
Carbon credits are “an illustration of the power of Western propaganda”
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“Problems under every stone we turned.” New report on REDD by the Berkeley Carbon Trading Project finds massive exaggerations of emissions…
“REDD+ is ill-suited to the generation of carbon credits for use as offsets”
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