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Carbonballs: Nigel Farage

Carbonballs: Nigel Farage opposes “net zero” while hoping to cash in on carbon trading with Dutch firm DGB Group

Posted on 1 April 20221 April 2022

Carbonballs: Nigel Farage hopes to profit from carbon offsets, while opposing net zero.

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Nigel Farage, Carbon Trader

Carbonballs: Nigel Farage, carbon offset lobbyist

Posted on 1 April 20211 April 2021

Nigel Farage, former leader of the Brexit Party, has joined the advisory board of Dutch Green Business Group, a carbon trading company.

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Carbonballs: How Carbon Neutral Investments made Newcastle United “carbon positive”

Posted on 16 February 201610 May 2019

Last week, REDD-Monitor wrote about the closure of 19 companies in the High Court in London. The companies sold more than 5 million carbon credits to retail investors, for more than £36 million. Hundreds of pensioners were duped out of their life savings.

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Carbonballs: “Lima is already a success,” says Al Gore at COP20

Posted on 19 December 201419 December 2014

REDD-Monitor’s occasional series, Carbonballs usually features the howlers made by con artists selling carbon credits as investments. Today’s post features Al Gore, Former Vice President of the USA, the man who insisted on carbon trading as part of the Kyoto Protocol, back in 1997.

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Carbonballs: “Enviro Associates believe that demand for all types of emission reduction units will grow more quickly than supply”

Posted on 8 April 201419 December 2014

REDD-Monitor’s occasional series, Carbonballs features the howlers made by con artists selling carbon credits as investments. This time round, it’s Enviro Associates trying to explain carbon credits to gullible investors.

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