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Author: Chris Lang

Carbon markets aren’t working. Time to stop burning fossil fuels

Posted on 29 May 2017

This year sees the 20th anniversary of the Kyoto Protocol. That’s 20 years of wasted time in addressing climate change. Don’t believe me? The graph above shows the Keeling curve – the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere measured at Mauna Loa Observatory. On 22 May 2017, it stood at 410 parts per million.

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Franklin Kinard leaves Bar Works: “I have completed my reorganization, and I am leaving the company”

Posted on 24 May 20178 August 2020

Franklin Kinard sent out another email update yesterday. It’s posted in full below. Kinard is leaving Bar Works. In January 2017, when Konrad Putzer wrote about Bar Works on the New York property website The Real Deal, Jonathan Black was listed as CEO and co-founder. Within weeks, Black’s name was replaced by Kinard’s on Bar…

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Nick Start

Four conmen who sold rare earth metals have been jailed in the UK. One of them is Nick Start, who threatened to sue REDD-Monitor two years ago

Posted on 23 May 20178 June 2021

Nick Start worked for Sterling and Bond – part of the Capital Alternatives Network. He hasn’t yet been charged for his role in that particular scam.

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An update from Bar Works’ Franklin Kinard: “I want this fixed as desperately as all of you”

Posted on 19 May 2017

Bar Works is Renwick Haddow’s latest investment vehicle. Haddow has a history of disastrous investment schemes, the most notorious being the Capital Alternatives network. Bar Works is going the same way, leaving investors worried about where their money has gone.

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A plan to burn the planet: The aviation industry is in talks with the World Bank about using REDD to offset its emissions

Posted on 17 May 201717 May 2017

Almost 4,000 people are currently in Bonn, taking part in the latest UN climate talks. Many of them will have travelled there by aeroplane. Of course, it’s an important meeting. So important that Indonesia felt the need to register 58 people to take part. But reducing emissions from aviation is not on the agenda in…

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