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Aspiration Partners co-founder Joe Sanberg sentenced to 14 years in prison for US$248 million fraud
“This case has touched almost every badge of fraud.”
Jun 2
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Chris Lang
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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…
Jan 13, 2025
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Chris Lang
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Aspiration is under investigation by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission about the quality of its carbon offsets
How Aspiration went from a fintech investment firm to a carbon broker.
Jan 24, 2024
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Chris Lang
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The International Finance Corporation’s Carbon Opportunities Fund: Cryptocarbon, blockchain, and US corporations registered in the tax haven…
The International Finance Corporation has launched the Carbon Opportunities Fund, “a global investment platform that will raise private capital for an…
Aug 18, 2022
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Chris Lang
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Response from IFC fails to answer any of REDD-Monitor’s questions about its “Forest Bond”
On 1 November 2016, I wrote about the International Finance Corporation’s launch of a US$152 million “forest bond”.
Nov 29, 2016
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Chris Lang
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Some questions for the IFC about its “Forest bonds”
On 1 November 2016, I wrote about the International Finance Corporation’s launch of a US$152 million bond. According to the IFC’s press release, the…
Nov 18, 2016
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Chris Lang
IFC launches US$152 million REDD greenwashing bond for mining corporation BHP Billiton. With help from Conservation International
Yesterday, the World Bank’s private sector arm, the International Financial Corporation launched a US$152 million bond aimed at supporting REDD and…
Nov 1, 2016
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Chris Lang
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Mind the gap: Indigenous Peoples’ rights and REDD
The Forest Peoples Programme’s April 2011 ENewsletter starts with this sentence: “Closing the gap between international human rights law and realities…
Apr 27, 2011
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Chris Lang
Will the World Bank ever learn? IFC violates its own standards in palm oil sector in Indonesia
For the past five years, the Forest Peoples Programme and other NGOs have been working to persuade the World Bank’s private sector arm, the…
Aug 12, 2009
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Chris Lang
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