Andrew Nash of Sterling and Bond has responded to REDD-Monitor’s post about his company. I described it as a “ridiculously obvious scam”.
Oil palm set to take over from cattle ranching as the biggest threat to Brazil’s Amazon rainforest?
Despite the reduction in deforestation in Brazil over the past decade, “the deforestation problem is far from solved”, notes Datu Research in a recent report about the beef industry and deforestation in Brazil.
Claremont Partnerships is running a recovery room scam
A company called Claremont Partnerships is cold calling people who have been scammed into buying carbon credits as an investment. The company claims it can sell their carbon credits, provided an upfront fee is paid. It’s a scam, of course.
Dark Green? Response from Mads Asprem, CEO of Green Resources, to the Oakland Institute
Yesterday, REDD-Monitor wrote about the impact of Green Resources’ plantations on local communities in Uganda. The post was based on a new report by the Oakland Institute, “The Darker Side of Green: Plantation Forestry and Carbon Violence in Uganda”.
Carbon violence: The impact of Green Resources’ carbon plantations in Uganda
A new report by the Oakland Institute introduces the term “carbon violence” to describe the impact of Green Resources’ plantation operations in Uganda on local communities and their environment. Green Resources is a Norwegian-registered plantation company with 41,000 hectares of plantations in Africa, in Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda.