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Author: Chris Lang

IUCN bought carbon credits from the Madre de Dios Amazon REDD+ project

IUCN supports 30×30. IUCN claims to be concerned about the rights of Indigenous Peoples. But IUCN bought carbon credits from the Madre de Dios Amazon REDD+ project. Which consists of two logging concessions. And overlaps with a proposed Indigenous reserve to protect the Mascho Piro Indigenous People living in voluntary isolation

Posted on 9 December 202126 January 2022

IUCN bought carbon credits from the Madre de Dios Amazon REDD+ project – that sets a worrying and dangerous precedent given IUCN’s support for 30×30.

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Sabah’s two million hectare carbon deal

Sabah’s Nature Conservation Agreement: A two million hectare carbon deal involving a fake director, an inequitable agreement, a history of destructive logging, massive corruption, a series of offshore companies, and a sprinkling of neocolonial racism

Posted on 5 December 202116 December 2021

Sabah’s Nature Conservation Agreement, Jeffrey Kitingan and Stan Lassa Golokin, the Sabah Foundation and Innoprise Corporation.

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Conservation International admits failures

Conservation International admits failures in its Alto Mayo Protected Forest REDD project in Peru. But uses the failures as part of its success narrative

Posted on 30 November 202130 November 2021

Conservation International admits failures in the Alto Mayo Protected Forest. But instead of looking at the politics behind these failures, it uses them to boost its success narrative.

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The unravelling of Global Forestry Investments continues with £4.7 million in payments from the Financial Services Compensation Scheme. A backstory featuring Total Wealth Solutions, the Green Retirement Pension Plan, Hutchinson & Co. Trust Company, Eco Quest, GXG Markets, Opus Capital, Alfred Henry Corporate Finance, and a walk-on part for Thorn Medical

Posted on 25 November 202125 November 2021

By Chris Lang The Financial Services Compensation Scheme has paid out £4.7 million over a firm of independent financial advisers called Total Wealth Solutions. Total Wealth Solutions went into voluntary liquidation in June 2017.

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Verified hot air

Verified hot air: how a popular carbon offset project in Peru has taken tens of millions of dollars from hundreds of companies and individuals but done nothing to prevent climate change

Posted on 22 November 202114 January 2022

Verified hot air: The REDD Project in Brazil Nut concessions in Madre de Dios has sold nearly 10 million carbon credits. But it has not reduced deforestation.

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