2022 saw droughts, floods, hurricanes, and storms. More than 7 million people were displaced by floods in Pakistan. Hurrican Ian resulted in widespread damage in Cuba and the southeast of the US. The drought in Europe was the continent’s worst in 500 years. China saw both floods and droughts. Brazil faced the worst drought for decades which lastest most of the year. Predictably enough, COP27 achieved nothing to address the climate crisis.
Here are REDD-Monitor’s top ten posts in 2022. Click on the images to read the posts:
1. Peter Virdee sentenced to more than three years in prison for his role in carbon credit VAT fraud
2. Sadhguru: How not to save soil
3. “Flowcarbon is a scam,” says Cory Doctorow about WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann’s new carbon offset and blockchain company
4. Living Investments UK and Hyperion Management are boiler room scams that offered investments in teak plantations in Costa Rica. But will the UK authorities take any action?
5. Conservationists claim that their aim to place thirty per cent of the planet in protected areas by 2030 is supported by science. It isn’t. What the science does and doesn’t say about 30×30
6. Business as usual at WWF Germany: Conflict of interest allegations; Executive Director resigns; Whistleblower threatened with dismissal; WWF Germany covers up
7. How to burn the planet. Shell invests US$38 million in Carbonext, Brazil’s biggest REDD offset firms
8. Global Forestry Investments scam: Andrew Skeene and Omari Bowers sentenced to 11 years in prison
9. Gabon plans the world’s biggest ever issue of carbon credits. By logging its forests
10. James Moore sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for his role in the Bar Works scam
