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The Trend is Blue

The Trend is Blue: A carbon credit boiler room turns to the recovery room scam

Posted on 24 June 20142 June 2021

By Chris Lang The Trend is Blue is a company that used to sell near-worthless carbon credits as investments. That’s the boiler room part of the carbon credits scam. Now the company rings people up to tell them that they have a buyer for their near-worthless carbon credits. For an advance fee, no doubt. That’s…

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Diffraction Limited

Diffraction Limited: Another carbon credit boiler room bites the dust

Posted on 18 June 20146 January 2021

By Chris Lang The High Court in London has ordered Diffraction Limited into liquidation following an investigation by the Insolvency Service. Diffraction Limited is another part of the web of companies around Eco-Synergies.

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Eco-Synergies

UK High Court shuts down “web” of carbon credit boiler rooms – £19 million scam with Eco-Synergies at the centre

Posted on 28 May 20146 January 2021

A web of companies, with Eco-Synergies at the centre, has been closed down in the UK’s High Court.

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Biodiversity offsetting is a licence to trash

Posted on 2 May 201410 April 2015

A proposal in the UK to destroy ancient woodland to make way for a £40 million motorway service station clearly reveals the flaws of biodiversity offsets.

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Carbonballs: “Enviro Associates believe that demand for all types of emission reduction units will grow more quickly than supply”

Posted on 8 April 201419 December 2014

REDD-Monitor’s occasional series, Carbonballs features the howlers made by con artists selling carbon credits as investments. This time round, it’s Enviro Associates trying to explain carbon credits to gullible investors.

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