In October 2020, Peru and Switzerland signed a carbon offsetting deal. It excludes REDD, but it will not reduce emissions globally.
Category: Switzerland
One trillion trees. A naive and dangerous distraction from the need to leave fossil fuels in the ground
One trillion trees: The World Economic Forum’s announcement of its tree planting initiative is a dangerous distraction from the role burning fossil fuels on the climate crisis
Carbon offsets: Australian airline Qantas makes misleading claims about “empowering rainforest communities”, while making the climate crisis worse
By Chris Lang In October 2019, Andrew Penman, a journalist at The Mirror contacted REDD-Monitor. I’d been in touch with Penman a few times in the past, mainly because he’s one of the few journalists in the UK who has regularly exposed the boiler room scams selling carbon credits as investments to retail investors.
Some questions for Stephen Hooper about the “carbon benefit units” sold from his April Salumei REDD project in Papua New Guinea
April Salumei is a REDD project in Papua New Guinea. Various companies, including Qantas, Eneco Energy Trade, and Norwegian supermarket chain Rema 1000, have bought carbon credits from the April Salumei REDD project. Should you so wish, you can buy carbon credits from the project on the USAID-funded website Stand for Trees.
Industry RE and a very big REDD carbon credit scam
Industry RE: also involving Celestial Green Ventures in Brazil and the April Salumei REDD project in Papua New Guinea.