Worldwide Commodity Partners Limited was a company that sold carbon credits, for which there is no functioning secondary market, at inflated prices and which was wound-up by British regulatory authorities in 2014 in the public interest following an investigation by the Insolvency Service. It was one of a web of 13 companies that also included Eco-Synergies Limited that were shut down at the same time.[1][2][3]

Worldwide Commodity Partners had been named "Fastest Growing Broker, Western Europe, 2012" in the World Finance Awards.[4][5]

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References

  1. ↑ "More multi-million pound carbon credit companies are shut down following Insolvency Service investigations". The Insolvency Service. 23 May 2014. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
  2. ↑ "Investors lose out as bogus schemes shut down". Interactive Investor. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
  3. ↑ "Man who cost public £3million with carbon credit scheme banned from being company director for 15 years". Echo. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
  4. ↑ Lang, Chris (19 July 2012). "Worldwide Commodity Partners Limited – another carbon credit boiler room?". REDD-Monitor. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
  5. ↑ "So how exactly did Worldwide Commodity Partners get this award?", Andrew Penman, 11 July 2012, Mirror.co.uk. Archived at archive.org. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
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