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Leigh Baldwin

@leighba1

Editor of @Source_Mat. Not so tweety. DMs open for stories, collaborations.

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NEW: Total’s Congo offsetting project ā€˜snatched our land’ - our latest investigation with Sky News, Mediapart and Unearthed source-material.org/total-oil-cong…

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NEW: The Carbon Con - The world’s biggest companies, from Netflix to Ben & Jerry’s, are pouring billions into an offsetting industry whose climate claims appear increasingly at odds with reality. Our latest with The Guardian and DIE ZEIT source-material.org/vercompanies-c…

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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/202…

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Greta Thunberg comments on our investigation into Verra, the organisation that dominates the carbon offsetting market. Read our version of the "ugly truth" here source-material.org/vercompanies-c…

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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-c…

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'They came at night': Armed men at Disney forest razed homes. Here's the latest from our carbon offsetting investigation with The Guardian and DIE ZEIT source-material.org/armed-men-disn…

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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-c…

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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-quarri…

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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-off…

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🚨What 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

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Aisland Team has exposed another bunch of fakes news producers. Source-material.org on the Payroll of the World Prominent Timber Investor: news.aisland.io/source-materia…

Aisland Team has exposed another bunch of fakes news producers.
Source-material.org on the Payroll of the World Prominent Timber Investor:

news.aisland.io/source-materia…
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Trojan Horsepower: Formula 1 and the Saudi oil lobby. Our latest investigation reveals a sponsorship deal with a hard edge. source-material.org/saudi-aramco-f…

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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-traffick…

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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-over…

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Chad, one of the world's poorest countries, has been locked in a disastrous oil-backed debt to the commodities giant Glencore for the last decade. We uncovered a trail of secret payments linked to the deal, an arrangement "fraught with red flags". source-material.org/glencore-chad-…

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Perhaps not surprising that Nigel Farage is taking an interest in vetting candidates: five years ago he ran alongside a propagandist for a genocidal warlord. source-material.org/brexit-party-c…

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The oil and gas group Perenco has become one of the biggest presences in the North Sea, helping the Perrodo family amass a vast fortune by buying up "mature" gas fields. But what happens when their wells and platforms reach the end of their lives? source-material.org/perenco-north-…

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We're hiring! If you're an investigative journalist with a nose for a story and a taste for collaborative working, we'd love to hear from you. cisionjobs.co.uk/job/111593/sou…