Carbon credits linked to illegal land grab and timber laundering in the Brazilian Amazon

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An investigation exposed how carbon credits from three of the largest carbon offset projects in the Brazilian Amazon are linked to a criminal operation. Well-known companies such as Gol airline, Nestlé, and Toshiba all bought carbon credits from these projects and used them to advertise their polluting products as ‘CO2-neutral’.

Here you can read Sumaúma article about the investigation in English here, in Portuguese here, in Spanish here