Organised crime syndicates are eyeing the nascent forest carbon credit industry as a potentially lucrative new opportunity for fraud, an Interpol environmental crime official said on Friday.
Peter Younger, an environmental crimes specialist at the world's largest international police agency, was referring to a UN-backed scheme called reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/forest-co2-scheme-will-draw-organised-crime-interpol
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/sunanda-creagh
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/planet-ark-australia
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/forests
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/deforestation
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/wood
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/timber-smuggling
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/carbon-dioxide
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/green-house-gases
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/carbon-offset
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/carbon-sinks
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/illegal-trade
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ngo
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/indonesia
[15] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/developing-countries
