
Leigh Baldwin
@leighba1
Editor of @Source_Mat. Not so tweety. DMs open for stories, collaborations.
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https://www.source-material.org/ 06-12-2018 12:35:07
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How #Verra created the billion dollar #carbonbubble: Our longread in @DieZeit is now available in English! A joint investigation with the The Guardian and SourceMaterial about millions of carbon credits that only exist because of bad statistics zeit.de/wirtschaft/202ā¦


In 2007, the World Economic Forum, an international corporate lobbying organisation, helped found Verra, the organisation which now certifies carbon offsets. 15 years later, as #WEF23 holds its annual meeting at Davos, we find serious problems with it. source-material.org/vercompanies-cā¦


Our Essay of the Week pulls back the curtain on the carbon offsets industry. This investigation scrutinised nearly 100 million carbon credits, finding that only 6% of them resulted in real emissions reductions. By SourceMaterial, DIE ZEIT & The Guardian source-material.org/vercompanies-cā¦

Sierra Leone is on the climate change frontline. Its defences - tropical forests - are on sale to the highest bidder. Our latest investigation with Samuel Lovett of the The Telegraph. source-material.org/illegal-quarriā¦

Revolt of the South Pole penguins: leaked documents seen by SourceMaterial and Follow the Money show staff at the world's largest offsetting company are protesting to management about secretive deals with fossil fuel companies and authoritarian regimes. source-material.org/south-pole-offā¦

šØWhat are voluntary carbon credits worth? Will they soon become an incentive to build new (CO2) tax havens? Süddeutsche Zeitung , SourceMaterial & SoutheastAsiaGlobe collaborated to investigate how faulty voluntary carbon credit projects may soon help Singapore's gov to dominate global markets

In the category Investigative reporting, āCarbon pirates: why offsets are not workingā by The Guardian DIE ZEIT and SourceMaterial have won the #ClimateAward





With deadly flash floods and bad harvests, Sierra Leone is already living with climate change. Now human traffickers are exploiting the victims. Our latest investigation, published with Al Jazeera English. source-material.org/human-traffickā¦

England's sewage system has nearly 7,000 emergency overflows, almost all unmonitored. We found that nearly 900 are in protected areas - and some are routinely pumping out sewage into beauty spots and vulnerable habitats. With Lucie Heath of The i Paper. source-material.org/emergency-overā¦



