Climate neutral: Astrid Geisler and Hannah Knuth, journalists with the Zeit set up a fake flower company and make it “climate neutral” with the help of myclimate and ClimatePartner.

US$3.3 million carbon credit trading scam in Taiwan: Directors of Rich Alliance Good Health Co given prison sentences
Carbon credit trading scam in Taiwan. The directors of Rich Alliance Good Health Co sentenced to eight and four years in prison.

NIHT Inc: Two more letters from communities complaining about the company’s REDD operations in Papua New Guinea
NIHT Inc: Maililngan ILG and the Baining people have written letters of complaint about NIHT Inc’s REDD operations in PNG

Tony Hetherington on Living Investments UK’s Nick Durrant: “Like handling a particularly slippery eel that has been given a generous coating of Vaseline”
Living Investments: Tony Hetherington writes in the Daily Mail about Nick Durrant’s plantation investments in Costa Rica. Will the authorities now take action?

John Oliver: “We cannot offset our way out of climate change”
John Oliver takes a look at carbon offsets in one of his recent shows. “Carbon offsets are bullshit,” he concludes.