Indigenous Peoples presented conflicting points out view about REDD during the 12th session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples, currently taking place in New York.
COONAPIP to take out lawsuit to stop REDD in Panama: “REDD cannot continue as it stands”
In February 2013, the National Coordinating Body of Indigenous Peoples in Panama, COONAPIP, withdrew from UN-REDD. In a letter to UN-REDD, COONAPIP explained that, UN-REDD “does not currently offer guarantees for respecting indigenous rights [nor for] the full and effective participation of the Indigenous Peoples of Panama”.
TM Harris: Another carbon credit boiler room scam?
TM Harris Associates is another UK-based company that cold calls people hoping to persuade them into handing over their money as an “investment” in voluntary carbon credits. The company seems to have many of the hallmarks of a boiler room scam.
London Carbon Credit Company: Another carbon credit boiler room bites the dust
By Chris Lang London Carbon Credit Company was exposed as a scam by Daily Mirror journalist Andrew Penman in August 2012. Last month, Penman reported that the company has been wound up in the public interest in the High Court in London.
Some questions for Charles Stephenson, CEO of Advanced Global Trading
Earlier this month, REDD-Monitor wrote about a Dubai-based company called Advanced Global Trading. AGT is yet another company that sells voluntary carbon credits as an investment. REDD-Monitor asked whether the company was a boiler room, a Ponzi scheme, or both.