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‘We don’t know where the money is going’: the ‘carbon cowboys’ making millions from credit schemes

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‘We don’t know where the money is going’: the ‘carbon cowboys’ making millions from credit schemes

www.theguardian.com

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Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 8 months ago

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Carbon schemes are touted as a way to transfer billions in climate finance to the developing world – but people at the Kariba project in Zimbabwe say most of the profits never arrive

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That is goddamn infuriating.
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  Definitely. The whole offset/credit market has incredibly fraud-ridden.

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