How a small Chinese company tricked the German state | DW Investigation

DW Planet A • December 10, 2024

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DW uncovered that dozens of Chinese climate projects, certified by the German authorities as carbon credits under the upstream emission reduction scheme, failed to deliver on promises to save millions of tons of carbon emissions. A joint investigation by DW and ZDF reveals how Germany was deceived – and exposes the shadowy company Beijing Karbon behind the alleged fraud. #PlanetA #CarbonOffsets #InvestigativeJournalism Credits: An investigation by: Mathias Bölinger and Birgitta Schülke in cooperation with ZDF-Frontal Additional research: Yuchen Li Camera and Video editing: Dmytro Katkov Fact-checking: Carolyn Thompson Editor: Naomi Conrad Legal Support: Florian Wagenknecht Executive Producer: Kiyo Dörrer, Katharina Kroll Thumbnail: Em Chabridon Video by our colleagues from ZDF (in German): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpRMNelV_Fg Read more: Background information about the carbon credit scheme from the Federal Environment Agency: https://www.dehst.de/EN/Topics/Climate-Projects/UERV/uerv_node.html#doc286006bodyText7 Background on the prosecutor’s investigation (press release): https://www.berlin.de/generalstaatsanwaltschaft/presse/pressemitteilungen/2024/pressemitteilung.1466648.php Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:50 Investigating projects in China 03:10 Upstream Emission Reduction (UER): A new scheme in Germany 04:05 Lack of control by the German authorities 07:13 The Chinese company behind the alleged fraud 10:44 The buyers 12:25 Were the auditors complicit? 14:30 The Consequences