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The Asian Development Bank on REDD: “Riddled with many complexities”
A few weeks ago, REDD-Monitor took a look at how the Asian Development Bank appears to have changed its tune on REDD. In 2010, the ADB was promoting the region’s “huge potential to benefit from REDD+”, but by 2015 the ADB acknowledged the “considerable uncertainty about the actual contribution that REDD will make”.
Conservation efforts in the Congo Basin are “mostly failing” says new Rainforest Foundation UK report
Conservation efforts in the Congo Basin are mostly failing to protect forests and biodiversity write Rainforest Foundation UK in a new report.
Three carbon credit fraud suspects wanted in Germany for tax evasion and money laundering
German authorities have issued a “wanted poster” for three men suspected of being involved in a carousel VAT fraud relating to carbon credits.
James Cable, director of Beta Commodities, disqualified for 14 years for selling carbon credits as an investment
Beta Commodities Limited was a boiler room operation that cold called retail investors and scammed them into buying carbon credits as investments. The company’s director James Michael Cable has now been disqualified as a director for 14 years.