By Chris Lang Kurt Kaiser, Director of Compass Carbon LLC, has written to REDD-Monitor in response to last week’s post about a company called World Wide Carbon LLC. The post focussed on the fact that on 1 December 2020, Mark Loewen, one of the company’s directors, had pleaded guilty to committing wire fraud. At the…
Mark Loewen, director of World Wide Carbon LLC, pleads guilty to defrauding investors in carbon credit scam
By Chris Lang World Wide Carbon LLC was a company registered in Atlanta in the US. From 2013 to 2018, the company claimed to sell investments related to carbon credits. In total seven victims handed over US$1.7 million. On 1 December 2020, in the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Mark H. Loewen,…
“Storage of carbon in plants and soils cannot compensate for emissions of fossil carbon”
By Chris Lang Last week, 23 researchers and experts published an article in the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter titled, “Misleading and false myths about carbon offsets”. The article was initiated by Researchers Desk, a non-profit association set up in October 2019 in response to Greta Thunberg’s call to “listen to the researchers”.
REDD notes: 7 December 2020
By Chris Lang This week’s REDD notes. Follow @reddmonitor on Twitter for more links to news about forests, the climate crisis, natural climate solutions, the oil industry, greenwash, carbon offsetting, etc.
More than 70 California environmental justice groups oppose Mary Nichols to head the US Environmental Protection Agency
By Chris Lang Mary Nichols, the chair of the California Air Resources Board since 2007, is a leading contender to head the Environmental Protection Agency under the new US President-Elect Joe Biden. “If they offered it, I would take it,” Nichols told the Associated Press.