Citadel/Highpoint Trustees was involved in several very dubious investment schemes. Why didn’t the Financial Conduct Authority act?
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The trouble with trees: The African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative is based on a “profound misreading of Africa’s grassy biomes”
The African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative aims to cover 100 million hectares in Africa with trees. A new paper criticises this approach.
Northern Powerhouse Developments: Another “investment” scheme promoted by Property Frontiers collapses
By Chris Lang Property Frontiers is an investment company based in Oxford. Ray Withers, the founder and director of the company says, “I founded Property Frontiers back in 2004 due to the fact I personally had a bad experience investing overseas. I strove to build a company offering a professional service, that did its research…
REDD-Monitor’s top ten posts in 2018
Last year, four of the top five posts on REDD-Monitor were about scams and frauds. But half of the top ten posts featured forests and climate change. And the post about EcoPlanet Bamboo is about a bamboo plantation company and a slowly unravelling investment scam. Inveterate fraudster Renwick Haddow appears in three of the top…
REDD-Monitor’s top ten posts in 2017
Last year (as usual) most of the top ten stories on REDD-Monitor were about scams and frauds. A post about Renwick Haddow’s return after the Capital Alternatives scam took top place (and is the second most visited post on REDD-Monitor, after a 2013 post about how much a carbon credit costs). Haddow featured in three…