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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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FIFA’s climate own goal: Swiss advertising regulator rules 2022 World Cup not “carbon neutral”
All carbon credits are junk
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Victims sue Colemans’ insurers over decade-old Carbon-ex carbon credit investment scam
Carbon-ex is gone, Colemans is dissolved, and the carbon credits can't be traced
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