In March 2013, REDD-Monitor wrote about a company called Anglo-Capital Partners, which was selling carbon credits as “a phenomenal alternative investment opportunity”. Last month, after an investigation by the Insolvency Service, Anglo-Capital Partners was ordered into liquidation in the High Court.
Category: UK
Beware of the Murdoch & Chase boiler room and recovery room scam
Murdoch & Chase Asset Management is an “alternative investment brokerage based in the heart of the City of London”. It offers a series of “Services”: Fine Wine, Properties in Brazil, Rare Earth Commodities, Real Estate, Stagnant Asset Release, and Due Dilligence.
No to Biodiversity Offsetting
You’ve heard of carbon offsetting. Here’s biodiversity offsetting – a scheme that would allow destructive development projects just about anywhere.
Before Luke Ryan founded Enviro Associates, he was censured by the Financial Services Authority
“Enviro Associates specialises in providing the opportunity to purchase Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) carbon credits within the de-centralised unregulated speculative voluntary carbon credit spot market for high risk speculative investment for the future and individual and corporate offset purposes.”
Carbon Neutral Investments and CNI (UK) Ltd
Over the past two weeks, Richard Smith has written a series of posts on Naked Capitalism about Carbon Neutral Investments and carbon credit scams. REDD-Monitor provided two handy guides to these posts, here and here.