By Chris Lang Before the coronavirus crisis, greenhouse gas emissions from the aviation industry were among the fastest growing of any industry. Yet there is no mention of the aviation sector in the Paris Agreement. Instead, in 2016, the UN International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) announced that aviation would go “carbon neutral” from 2020.
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Tullett Brown carbon credit investment scam, five years on. Bradley Ferry, director of Tullett Brown but “nothing more than a salesman”, gets his solicitor to “kindly request” REDD-Monitor to “remove the link referenced herein”
By Chris Lang Five years ago, REDD-Monitor wrote about four men in the UK who received 14-year director bans. The bans followed their involvement in a £5.5 million land banking and carbon credit scam. A series of companies was involved, including Tullett Brown Limited, Tamar (London) Limited, Johnnystone Limited and Brad Baker Limited, Foxstone Carr…
More on the D’Cerrado a’Amazonia REDD project in Brazil. Featuring SSO International Capital, LiveHOPE Fund, GHG Emissions Corp., RTD SPV1 LLC, and Brazil Mata Viva
By Chris Lang In July 2016, Boniface Mburaburirwe wrote to REDD-Monitor, asking whether I (or anyone I knew) was interested in buying 345 million “certified carbon credits already invested on Bloomberg”. Mburaburirwe’s asking price was US$6.80 each.
Planet of the Humans (part 2): Bill McKibben and 350.org
By Chris Lang The documentary Planet of the Humans continues to raise controversy. This week, YouTube took down the documentary in response to a copyright infringement claim by Toby Smith, a British photographer. The offending four-second clip comes in a sequence titled “How Solar Panels & Wind Turbines Are Made” and shows a rare earth…
Planet of the Humans (part 1): Blood and Gore
By Chris Lang The new documentary Planet of the Humans is, like anything Michael Moore gets involved with, deliberately controversial. This one attacks renewable energy, some parts of the green movement, and decides that over-population is the problem. Moore released the film on his YouTube channel on the 50th Earth Day. In a week it’s…