Organisation · 10 articles

South Pole

Swiss climate consultancy firm annex carbon credits trader, in 2022 the biggest and most influential of its kind. Its most prestigous project – Kariba, a forest conservation project in Zimbabwe – is managed in cooperation with Carbon Green Investments (CGI), established by Steve Wentzel. In 2022, South Pole discovered that the calculation method had seriously overestimated the anticipated deforestation, rendering most of their carbon credits worthless.

17 November 2023

Collapse of Zimbabwean mega-project throws global carbon market into turmoil

Ties Gijzel
1
The China Files
13 November 2023

CO2 emissions by Spotify and BP offset with cotton residues from Xinjiang

Mira Sys & Ties Gijzel
19 October 2023

Climate giant South Pole lays off around 200 employees

Ties Gijzel
16 October 2023

Shooting elephants and selling fictitious CO2 rights: South Pole facilitates both

Ties Gijzel
26 July 2023

Renowned carbon credits project in Zimbabwe has more financial holes than Swiss cheese

Ties Gijzel
8
13 July 2023

Rumbling within the world’s largest climate consultant after FTM publications

Ties Gijzel
1
18 May 2023

After the South Pole controversy, Zimbabwe steps in with a plan to regulate CO2 trade

Ties Gijzel
1
25 April 2023

‘Green’ European companies hold back on adjusting incorrect climate claims

Bart Crezee & Ties Gijzel
10 March 2023

The world’s largest carbon trader is wrestling with painful facts about its business model

Ties Gijzel & Bart Crezee
27 January 2023

Showcase project by the world’s biggest carbon trader actually resulted in more carbon emissions

Bart Crezee & Ties Gijzel