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REDD-Monitor's top ten posts in 2020

REDD-Monitor’s top ten posts in 2020

Posted on 4 January 20214 January 2021

2020 was a strange year. And with that entry to the Basil Fawlty award for stating the bleedin’ obvious, here are REDD-Monitor’s top ten posts in 2020. Click on the images to read the posts:


1. German prosecutors seek arrest of Peter virdee (AKA) “Batman”) for carbon credit VAT Fraud

 

2. Pakistan’s tree planting programmes: Corruption, exclusion and marginalisation

 

3. Blackmore Bond collapse: Financial Conduct Authority is “responsible for every penny lost”

 

4. Planet of the Humans (part 1): Blood and Gore

 

5. US government stops funding to WWF, WCS and other conservation organisations because of human rights abuses

 

6. UNDP investigation confirms that WWF-funded ecoguards beat up indigenous peoples in the Republic of Congo

 

7. High Court orders Andrew Skeene and Omari Bowers, former directors of Global Forestry Investments, to pay £8.6 million

 

8. Coronavirus notes #2: Masks for all. And basic income for all

 

9. Carbon conman Sami Raja is finally in jail

 

10. Savraj Gata-Aura sentenced to four years in prison for his role in the Bar Works investment scam

 

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