{"id":25556,"date":"2024-03-18T10:34:42","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T09:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=25556"},"modified":"2024-03-18T10:35:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T09:35:16","slug":"we-dont-know-where-the-money-goes-the-coal-cowboys-are-making-millions-from-credit-schemes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2024\/03\/18\/we-dont-know-where-the-money-goes-the-coal-cowboys-are-making-millions-from-credit-schemes\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;We don&#039;t know where the money goes&#039;: &#039;carbon cowboys&#039; make millions from credit schemes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a feature for the Guardian, biodiversity and environment reporter Patrick Greenfield and Nyasha Chingono, a freelance reporter from Zimbabwe, report on &quot;carbon cowboys&quot; - groups that &quot;select and sign large tracts of land in the developing world&quot; for nature&#039;s carbon markets. The article focuses on a series of schemes\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pdpwbj.clicks.mlsend2.com\/tf\/cl\/eyJ2Ijoie1wiYVwiOjI0OTYxNyxcImxcIjoxMTYxMzMwMDg3MTAzMDQ5NDIsXCJyXCI6MTE2MTMzMDEyMTU1OTI1OTUxfSIsInMiOiI4YTA2MTVhYmRmOTcxNWQzIn0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">carbon offsets<\/a>\u00a0in the districts surrounding Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe. Most people &quot;have no idea that their villages have been at the center of a multimillion-dollar carbon boom,&quot; the article says: &quot;These communities are part of a massive, lucrative Kariba conservation project that covers an area almost the size of Puerto Rico. it is among the largest in the portfolio of forest compensation systems approved by Verra, the world&#039;s largest certified entity. Since 2011, this project alone has generated more than \u20ac100 million (\u00a385 million) in revenue from the sale of carbon credits equivalent to Kenya&#039;s national emissions in 2022 to Western companies. (<em>carbonbrief.org, More at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2024\/mar\/15\/money-carbon-credits-zimbabwe-conservation-aoe?utm_source=cbnewsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=2024-03-18&amp;utm_campaign=Daily+Briefing+18+03+2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">theguardian.com<\/span><\/a><\/em>)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a feature for the Guardian, biodiversity and environment reporter Patrick Greenfield and Nyasha Chingono, a freelance reporter from Zimbabwe, report on \u201ccarbon cowboys\u201d \u2013 groups that \u201cselect and sign up large swaths of land in the developing world\u201d for nature \u2013 carbon markets. The article focuses on a series of carbon offset schemes in the districts surrounding Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe. Most people \u201cdon\u2019t have [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uhlikove-kredity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}