The Florestal Santa Maria REDD project is built on the farce of REDD, the farce of FSC-certification and the farce of carbon trading.
Tag: Carbon Credits
Peter Singh Virdee avoids extradition to Germany to face charges of VAT fraud on carbon credit sales. Virdee is now being investigated for corruption in the Caribbean
Peter Singh Virdee avoided extradition to Germany to face charges of VAT fraud on sales of carbon credits. But Virdee talked of paying bribes in the Caribbean.
The Kariba REDD project in Zimbabwe: From carbon credits to EARTH tokens
The extraordinary story of the Kariba REDD project in Zimbabwe. Featuring cryptocurrencies, Earth Tokens, carbon credits, and tax havens.
Interview with Kate Heller, VCS Communications Manager, about April Salumei: “We cannot speak for the other ‘credits’ issued by the project”
In 2011, a Swiss company called World Markets AG bought five million “carbon benefit units”. They came from the April Salumei REDD project in Papua New Guinea. World Markets sold the “carbon benefit units” at a profit of over US$5 million.
Elite capture and benefit sharing in a community forest in Tanzania. Lessons for REDD?
A study published in October 2017 looks at how the demands of carbon forestry interact with the needs of community-based natural resource management. The study looks at one of the oldest village-based forest reserves in Tanzania, the Duru-Haitemba Villages Land Forest Reserve, in northern Tanzania. The Forest Reserve covers a total area of 9,045 hectares.