If you’ve bought carbon credits as an investment, you would probably be pleased to hear from someone from the VCS Registry offering help with selling your carbon credits. Unfortunately, that’s not someone from the VCS Registry on the phone, it’s another scammer.
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Guest Post: REDD+ fails the world’s forests and climate
Wally Menne is a South African environmental campaigner and a member of the Timberwatch Coalition. Since the mid-1990s, Timberwatch has exposed and monitored the environmental and social impacts of industrial tree plantations.
“Appropriate market based mechanisms cannot include trading carbon as offsets”: Accra Caucus intervention during UN REDD finance workshop
Last week a UN meeting on results based finance for REDD took place in Bonn, Germany. “Workshop on results-based finance for the full implementation of the activities referred to in decision 1/CP.16, paragraph 70”, to give it its full title. The aim of the UN work programme on REDD finance is to “contribute to the…
Friends of the Earth calls for an open review of the Kalimantan Forest Carbon Partnership
Friends of the Earth Australia has written to the Australian Government calling for “an open review of its failed experiment in climate aid in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia”. The Australian-funded Kalimantan Forest Carbon Partnership was quietly shelved earlier this year.
INTERPOL: Intangible carbon markets at risk from criminal networks
A new report from INTERPOL warns that carbon markets are at risk for exploitation by criminal networks.