A company called Grayson Wealth Management is cold calling people who have been scammed into buying carbon credits. Grayson Wealth Management’s telemarketers offer them a way of getting rid of their carbon credits. It’s a scam, of course.
Sustain:Green’s biodegradable credit card, Nike’s “Air” shoes, and the carbon credits that no one wants to buy
By Chris Lang “Credit cards that help the planet.” That’s the sales pitch from a company called Sustain:Green. With the company’s new biodegradable credit card you can “Fight climate change”, “Fund rainforest preservation”, and “Reduce your carbon footprint”.
Ryan Mellor, Sales Director, RMT Direct Ltd: “I am not a co-director of Ecopush or at any time had any involvement with this company”
EcoPush, the Gibraltar-based company offering “investments” in carbon trading, biofuels, agricultural commodities and sustainable timber, has disappeared. REDD-Monitor wrote about the company in June 2013.
Indonesia: President Jokowi extends the moratorium and announces a 4.6 million hectare land grab
Last week, Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo agreed to extend the country’s moratorium on new forestry concessions. Also last week, Jokowi visited Papua and relaunched the disastrous Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate (MIFEE).
The Guyana Forestry Commission and Indigenous Peoples’ rights: A revealing exchange
Before the World Bank’s Carbon Fund meeting last month, the Amerindian Peoples Association (APA) wrote to the participants of the meeting, expressing concerns about Guyana’s proposal to the Carbon Fund.