By Chris Lang In autumn 2019, the US government suspended US$12.3 million of funding to the Central Africa Regional Program for the Environment (CARPE). This followed a bipartisan congressional oversight investigation to examine whether US conservation funds were supporting eco-guards who committed human rights abuses.
Category: USA
Savraj Gata-Aura sentenced to four years in prison for his role in the Bar Works investment scam
By Chris Lang On 27 July 2020, Savraj Gata-Aura was sentenced to four years in prison for his part in the Bar Works investment scam. More than 800 investors handed over more than US$40 million supposedly as investments in the Bar Works co-working space company. Gata-Aura co-founded Bar Works in 2015 with serial scammer Renwick…
The aviation industry is avoiding its climate commitments while manipulating the price of carbon offsets downwards
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.
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.