Skip to content
Menu
REDD-Monitor
  • Start here
  • About REDD-Monitor
  • REDD: An introduction
  • Contact
REDD-Monitor

Category: South Africa

Durban Declaration on Carbon Trading

The Durban Declaration on Carbon Trading

Posted on 15 January 202122 January 2021

The Durban Declaration on Carbon Trading revisited, 16 years later.

Read More
EcoPlanet Bamboo

EcoPlanet Bamboo’s investors were “significantly let down”

Posted on 21 April 20176 January 2021

Troy Wiseman’s conflicts of interest are at the centre of the unravelling of the EcoPlanet Bamboo investment scheme.

Read More

An update on EcoPlanet Bamboo, Eco Resources Fund, and Premier Group (Isle of Man) Ltd: “Substantial recovery of value from the plantations may be unlikely”

Posted on 17 March 201725 April 2018

The Eco Resources Fund was launched in July 2012 in the Isle of Man. Via a special purpose vehicle called ERF Limited, the Fund invested in bamboo plantations in Nicaragua and South Africa. The bamboo plantations are run by EcoPlanet Bamboo.

Read More

Premier Group (Isle of Man) Ltd goes into liquidation. Inspector appointed to investigate Eco Resource Fund. What next for Troy Wiseman and EcoPlanet Bamboo?

Posted on 12 January 201725 April 2018

EcoPlanet Bamboo runs bamboo plantations in Nicaragua, South Africa and Ghana. A UK company called EcoPlanet Bamboo (UK) Ltd sold “bamboo bonds” with a promise of “a 500% return on investment over a 15 year period” on an investment of US$50,000. But in December 2015, EcoPlanet Bamboo wrote to bondholders to tell them that their…

Read More

Bamboozled: Inside EcoPlanet Bamboo’s tangled investment web

Posted on 25 October 201625 April 2018

In 2011 and 2012, a company called EcoPlanet Bamboo (UK) Ltd raised US$12 million by issuing bamboo bonds. The companies marketing the bonds, including Property Frontiers, EcoInvestments, and Emerald Knight promised returns of 500% over a 15 year investment period.

Read More
  • 1
  • 2
  • Next

SUBSCRIBE!

Enter your email address to receive notification of new posts.

Recent themes
Natural Climate Solutions
WWF's conservation scandals
Aviation and offsetting
Conservation Watch

REDDisms

“Carbon trading may have been the answer once but not any more… It will just take too long to achieve anything, and we no longer have the luxury of time.”

— Professor Kevin Anderson, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, October 2008

Recent Comments

  • Abel Ateu on The return of the carbon cowboys: How NIHT Inc failed to get free, prior and informed consent for REDD in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea
  • Sander van den Ende on Kevin Conrad signs REDD deal with Papua New Guinea
  • Eyedeal on “Returns up to 895%” and other misleading statements from Property Frontiers about investments in EcoPlanet Bamboo and Silva Tree
  • Chris Lang on Carbonballs: Nigel Farage, carbon offset lobbyist
  • Steve Zwick on Carbonballs: Nigel Farage, carbon offset lobbyist
My Tweets

Recent Posts

  • Coalition for Rainforest Nations announces sale of 6,106 REDD credits from Papua New Guinea to Blackstone Energy Services
  • Carbonballs: Nigel Farage, carbon offset lobbyist
  • Kevin Conrad signs REDD deal with Papua New Guinea
  • Court of Appeal upholds conviction of Paul Moore, Michael Moore, and Haydon Driscoll, the men behind the Burbank of London carbon credit investment scam
  • Court of Appeal upholds conviction of carbon conman Sami Raja. In his 2019 trial, Raja’s legal representatives withdrew because “they were professionally embarrassed”

Recent Comments

  • Abel Ateu on The return of the carbon cowboys: How NIHT Inc failed to get free, prior and informed consent for REDD in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea
  • Sander van den Ende on Kevin Conrad signs REDD deal with Papua New Guinea
  • Eyedeal on “Returns up to 895%” and other misleading statements from Property Frontiers about investments in EcoPlanet Bamboo and Silva Tree
  • Chris Lang on Carbonballs: Nigel Farage, carbon offset lobbyist
  • Steve Zwick on Carbonballs: Nigel Farage, carbon offset lobbyist

Issues and Organisations

AB 32 Boiler rooms Bonn California Can REDD save ... ? Carbon accounting Carbon Credits Carbon Offsets CDM Conservation-Watch Conservation International COP21 Paris Deforestation FCPF FERN Financing REDD Forest definition Fossil fuels FPP Friends of the Earth FSC Greenpeace Guest post ICAO Illegal logging Indigenous Peoples Natural Climate Solutions NGO statements Plantations Poznan R-M interview REDD and rights REDD in the news Risk RSPO-Watch Safeguards Sengwer Sustainable Forest Management The Nature Conservancy Ulu Masen UN-REDD UNFCCC World Bank WRM WWF

Countries

Australia Bolivia Brazil Cambodia Cameroon Canada China Colombia Congo Basin region DR Congo Ecuador El Salvador European Union France Germany Guatemala Guyana Honduras India Indonesia Kenya Laos Luxembourg Madagascar Malaysia Mexico Nicaragua Nigeria Norway Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Republic of Congo Sweden Tanzania Thailand Uganda UK Uncategorized United Arab Emirates USA Vietnam West Papua
©2021 REDD-Monitor | Powered by WordPress and Superb Themes!