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Brazil’s Federal Prosecution Office files lawsuit against Ciaran Kelly’s firm Go Balance to cancel Trocano Araretama REDD project
And demands US$1.7 million payment to Indigenous Peoples and local communities.
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Companies calling themselves Vado Administration and Startplant Services are running a recovery room scam
Cut and pasted websites are never a good sign.
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C-Quest files for bankruptcy. Bridge Carbon continues to market its cookstove carbon offsets
“Who deserves to cook with wood inside their house?”
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Aspiration’s Joe Sanberg arrested
Ibrahim AlHusseini has signed a plea agreement.
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Biodiversity credits: A “new form of green colonization plundering agricultural land for the benefit of financialization”
Via Campesina, Confédération Paysanne, and more than 270 civil society organisations and academics oppose biodiversity credits and offsets.
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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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Germany’s ongoing €4.5 billion carbon offset fraud: “It is possible that we are dealing with a case of serious environmental crime here”
German authorities’ action is “too little, too late” says whistleblower.
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Germany’s €4.5 billion carbon offset fraud
“The system has proven to be opaque and has proven to be prone to errors.”
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Five men found guilty in £13 million Essex and London Properties Ponzi scheme. Including Jeffrey Razaq, director of carbon scam company MH…
The scam company MH Carbon was established in September 2010 by Jonathan Cocks and Gavin Manerowski.
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Longer prison sentences for carbon fraudsters behind Carbon Positive Trading and Carbon Capital investment scam after they failed to repay…
Michael Richards, who is serving an 11-year prison sentence has had another 10 years added to his sentence, after failing to pay back £11 million of…
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Irish tax office moves to shut down Celestial Green Ventures
Celestial Green Ventures is an Irish carbon trading company, registered in November 2010.
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Sucker lists, recovery room scams, and why victims of scams become more trusting, not less
If you have been the victim of a scam, your name will be on a list to be cold called – and scammed – again.
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