By Chris Lang Kurt Kaiser, Director of Compass Carbon LLC, has written to REDD-Monitor in response to last week’s post about a company called World Wide Carbon LLC. The post focussed on the fact that on 1 December 2020, Mark Loewen, one of the company’s directors, had pleaded guilty to committing wire fraud. At the…
Category: USA
Mark Loewen, director of World Wide Carbon LLC, pleads guilty to defrauding investors in carbon credit scam
By Chris Lang World Wide Carbon LLC was a company registered in Atlanta in the US. From 2013 to 2018, the company claimed to sell investments related to carbon credits. In total seven victims handed over US$1.7 million. On 1 December 2020, in the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Mark H. Loewen,…
More than 70 California environmental justice groups oppose Mary Nichols to head the US Environmental Protection Agency
By Chris Lang Mary Nichols, the chair of the California Air Resources Board since 2007, is a leading contender to head the Environmental Protection Agency under the new US President-Elect Joe Biden. “If they offered it, I would take it,” Nichols told the Associated Press.
The Green Gigaton Challenge: Bringing REDD back from the dead, using Norway’s oil money to “grease the wheels”
By Chris Lang Thomson Reuters Foundation recently reported that, “Norway is doubling the price it guarantees developing nations to keep their tropical forests standing, in a step to slow catastrophic losses and encourage big companies to invest far more in nature to combat climate change.”
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
By Chris Lang A US-based company called NIHT Inc has big REDD plans for the provinces of New Ireland and East New Britain in Papua New Guinea. So far, the NIHT Topaiyo REDD+ Project covering an area of 10,443 hectares of forest, has been registered by Verra. The project is in the south of the…