Two days ago, I wrote about a company called Heron Global Partners. Between January and October 2016, the company raised £10.8 million in “investments”. It did so, not by cold calling, but using “inbound marketing”.
Alternative Investing with Heron Global Partners and Renwick Haddow: Inbound marketing is the new cold calling
A couple of weeks ago, a REDD-Monitor reader sent me an email. I’ll call him Jack. “Have you seen the website alternative-investing.uk?” Jack asked. “I think it could be a scam site given the track record of these types of things.”
Finnish Broadcasting Company reports on the impacts of Green Resources’ industrial tree plantations in Uganda
Green Resources is a Norwegian company with 41,000 hectares of industrial tree plantations in Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda. While Green Resources claims to be carrying out “sustainable development”, the reality is anything but sustainable for local communities.
Deadline tomorrow: UK government consultation on pension scams
On 5 December 2016, the UK government launched a consultation on pension scams. The government is asking for responses to four proposals aimed at making it harder for boiler room operations to scam people out of their pensions.
REDDheads: How Kevin Conrad took REDD from New York to the UNFCCC
Kevin Conrad dreamed up REDD as an MBA project in Columbia University, New York. He then persuaded PNG and Costa Rica to present REDD to the UNFCCC.