China Development Finance Corporation is cold calling people and offering to sell their near-worthless carbon credits. The company is a transparently obvious scam.
REDD myth no. 1: Deforestation accounts for 25% of greenhouse gas emissions
Myth: “Deforestation accounts for 25 percent of all man-made emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.”
Guest Post: “Welcome to the machine.” A guide to the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility’s Carbon Fund
Anja Bursche has worked as an environmental governance consultant for German Development Cooperation, focusing on the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility from 2011 to 2013. The views and opinions expressed in the guest post are her own and do not reflect the views of the German government.
Customer data leaked from Barclays and sold to boiler room scammers
According to an article in the Mail on Sunday, thousands of UK Barclays Bank customer files have been stolen and sold on to boiler room companies. The companies used the information in the files to pressure people into investing in scams: rare earth metals; diamonds; and carbon credits.
Why the National Assembly should hold public hearings on the Guyana Forestry Commission
In November 2013, Guyanese government agencies released 41 reports to the National Assembly. Several of these were overdue, including a series of annual reports from the Guyana Forestry Commission from 2005 to 2012.