‘We don’t know where the money is going’: the ‘carbon cowboys’ making millions from credit schemes

The Kariba conservation project in Zimbabwe covers an area almost the size of Puerto Rico. Photograph: Annie Mpalume/The Guardian

Carbon schemes are touted as a way to transfer billions in climate finance to the developing world – but people at the Kariba project in Zimbabwe say most of the profits never arrive

Patrick Greenfield and Nyasha Chingono in Kariba

n the districts surrounding Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe, most people have little idea their villages were at the centre of a multimillion-dollar carbon boom.… Read the rest

Revealed: legal fears over Michael Gove’s new definition of ‘extremism’

Michael Gove is set to announce his controversial plan this week, but some argue it will be challenged in the courts. Photograph: Duncan Bryceland/Rex/Shutterstock

The communities secretary wants ‘trailblazer’ government departments to pilot a scheme to ban individuals and groups deemed extremist from public life

Michael Gove is set to announce a controversial plan this week to ban individuals and groups who “undermine the UK’s system of liberal democracy” from public life, despite fears inside government that the scheme is at risk of a legal challenge, leaked documents reveal.
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