In 2016, Sara Peña Valderrama completed her PhD in social anthropology, where she studied a forest carbon project run by Conservation International in Madagascar. Her thesis is available on Durham University’s website: Entangling Molecules: an ethnography of a carbon offset project in Madagascar’s eastern rainforest. She submitted this Guest Post about what happened when the project changed…
Tag: Carbon Credits
Industry RE and a very big REDD carbon credit scam
Industry RE: also involving Celestial Green Ventures in Brazil and the April Salumei REDD project in Papua New Guinea.
Why is VCS so reluctant to help stamp out carbon credit scams?
Earlier this week, Dennis Myles left a comment on REDD-Monitor. Myles had been “approached” by someone calling themselves Timothy Davies, who claimed to work for Verified Carbon Standard (VCS).
Another one bites the dust: Conservation Central Network ordered to wind up
On 22 August 2016, a court order to wind up Conservation Central Network and appoint a liquidator was issued in Australia. About time too.
A company calling itself “Novus Capital Markets” is running a recovery room scam
Yesterday, “Fallguy” left a comment on REDD-Monitor. Fallguy is one of many people in the UK who have been scammed into buying carbon credits as an investment. In his comment, he wrote about a recent phone conversation he had with Brian Carter from Novus Capital Markets. Carter was inviting him to get scammed once again.