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Verra records largest ever loss of more than US$9 million
And Verra’s new CEO fails to address criticisms of Verra and the voluntary carbon market.
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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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Big Polluters are buying cheap, old, junk carbon offsets
A new study shows that 87% of offsets retired by companies like Shell, Delta Airlines, Chevron, and Eni carry a high risk of not providing emissions…
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“Over-issuance of millions of carbon credits”: C-Quest Capital announces “wrongdoing” by its former CEO, Ken Newcombe
At the World Bank, and then in the private sector, Newcombe was one of the major proponents of carbon trading. He also spent 16 years on Verra’s board…
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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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Indonesian government revokes Rimba Raya REDD project’s license
"To say we are disappointed, is an understatement," project developer InfiniteEARTH says.
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“Weaving the defence of the Kichwa territory in the face of the conservation of the Cordillera Azul National Park”
Kichwa Indigenous communities demand that Big Polluters buying carbon credits "assume their responsibilities for having invested in a Park that…
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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.
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Shell scraps its carbon offsets programme
A “damning indictment of offsets”, Bloomberg writes
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The Kichwa indigenous community wins an important legal victory against the exclusionary conservation of the Cordillera Azul National Park…
In 2020, the Kichwa community of Puerto Franco and the Ethnic Council of the Kichwa Peoples of the Amazon (CEPKA) filed a lawsuit against the Peruvian…
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Shell: “Don’t Just Stand There. Plant A Tree”
In October 1989, Shell put out a confidential report titled “Scenarios 1989-2010: Challenge and response”.
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Cordillera Azul National Park REDD project in Peru: Fake additionality, fake baseline, fake leakage, and failure to recognise the rights of…
Business as usual for REDD.
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