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Category: Cambodia

Conservation Central Network, Sustainable AgroEnergy and a “thickening quagmire of dishonesty”

Posted on 5 March 201513 July 2015

In December 2014, three men were sentenced in Southwark Crown Court in the UK to a total of 28 years for their involvement in a £23 million biofuel investment fraud. While handing down the sentence, judge Martin Beddoe described the fraud as a “thickening quagmire of dishonesty”.

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Can REDD save the Areng Valley in Cambodia?

Posted on 28 October 201427 February 2015

The Areng Valley in southwest Cambodia has been home to the Chong indigenous people for more than 600 years. The area is also home to elephants, pileated gibbons, clouded leopards, and is one of the most important breeding sites for the endangered Siamese crocodile. But a proposed dam threatens the river, the forests and its…

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Military clearing of community forests in Oddar Meanchey, Cambodia (photos)

Posted on 13 June 201428 August 2020

“The Oddar Meanchey REDD project model is centered on local people’s participation in forest management,” said Ty Sokhun, head of Cambodia’s Forestry Administration in 2009. Five years later logging is rampant in the project area. Local people and the project developers are powerless to stop it. The Cambodian government does not seem interested.

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“The program here for carbon trading is dead,” says villager in Oddar Meanchey, Cambodia

Posted on 4 June 20149 January 2018

Things just keep getting worse for the Oddar Meanchey REDD project in Cambodia. According to a report last week in the Cambodia Daily, logging is now so rampant that community leaders have given up on REDD.

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How Sustainable AgroEnergy’s “green oil” investment in Cambodia fell apart

Posted on 18 March 20144 February 2019

This is a story involving a company called Sustainable AgroEnergy, a jatropha plantation in Cambodia, boiler room companies, retail investors asking where their money went, banks in Switzerland, Tanzania and the British Virgin Islands, a member of the House of Lords, and the Serious Fraud Office.

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