it's okay, it's not so nice of nice planet, a looks at how chinese climate projects in germany failed to deliver on that promises. remember, you can get lots more news on our website at www dot. com, or you can watch all year tube channel. um follow us social media handle is dw news on our tech support team to check by the it could be the biggest climate fraud and german history. they have the freedom

park on, is it the could be 9250 gun different shades and a tool meant to make the oil industry cleaner, provided criminals with the unique opportunity for a 1000000000 euro fraud system is all over the system. it's now most of the, the use investigative unit teamed up with germany's public broadcasters adf, to investigate this fraud, which began with complex carbon credit, certified in germany. and took us all the way to oil fields and china. the this is shang lee oil field and eastern china. documents we've acquired showed that the owner supposedly installed new energy efficient equipment that reduces the oil fields carbon emissions by more than $250000.00 tons per year. this modernization

was approved as an environmental protection project in germany in may or is adf colleague and badging travel to the shang leeway ill failed to find the new equipment. danielle one. jen, go to the law mill smiles, which i don't to where your communion was after threatening me. mr. saw, has been working in this oil field for many years and he frequently travels to nearby oil wells. the whole one love. yeah. yeah. that's what we're finding with him again was not in the mail. we drove to the company that supposedly installed the new equipment, the coordinates at the headquarters. we're also listed in the documents and we found, well,

almost nothing. just an abandoned chicken cuz this tied in with tips we had gotten from insiders within the carbon trade market in china. that many of the chinese projects that were sold to german companies or nothing but a lucrative fraud. setting up a real project cost tens of millions where it's vacant project just purely on paper like out of senior. you only need to forward your basket of new documents and you gain hundreds of millions of bureaus in return carbon credits, worldwide, or under scrutiny. for months we dug into carbon seating projects. in china. we tried to satellite images corroborated coordinates and sifted through thousands of pages of project documents which were submitted to the german authorities for approval under a relatively new scheme. since

2020 oil companies operating in germany can invest in projects that reduce carbon emissions and oil or gas fields. in other countries, like china, in return, they obtain carbon credits, which they can be used to meet their obligations to reduce emissions in germany. for the federal environment agency is in charge of approving the projects for germany. the most important condition to be approved. the facilities need to be new at the county datas quick. this is just one that's i'm logwood. district strategy, nope, is noisy. and so what comes in providing just by success dnd additional notion about so not my experience. see any more annoying, quino shoots or an easy and overall, the agency is approved. 66 projects in china organized under random letter combinations. their total market value exceeds 2000000000 years. many of the projects ernst and young china is remote weaker region with often

limited access to agencies. president direct messner told us that none of its employees ever visited any of the project in china . it's standard procedure to lead the auditing to private, specialized companies that i calling multiple bodies images and few play from the shifting the couldn't guns, the technician. and um, and the type of equipment you condone is you upgrade from opposite to different. adopting into tyler's decent and this is the loophole that apparently was exploited . weeks after our visit to the chicken coop, the auditors sent the real coordinates of the company's address, claiming it was a mix up. but wrong coordinates were not the only irregularities we came across. we found addresses and dates that don't check out the take file number b,

z i a this is a recent photo. a source gave us the station is supposed to save more than a $120000.00 tons of carbon emissions per year. it collects gas that would otherwise be released during the oil extraction. the gas has been liquefied and load it onto trucks for further use. the application list, the projects start date as september 2020 but satellite images, route 2019 shows that the plant was already there. the 4 n g tanks were clearly visible. truck tracks at the pick up point and the security flare suggests that the plant was already operational more than one year before the application was filed. so an existing installation in china was likely submitted as a new climate project to the german authorities that we

went through zurich to meet one of the world's leading experts on international climate policies in carbon trait we showed act. so michelle, over the photos and documents to understand were there any circumstances under which such a project could have been eligible to be approved as an environmental project in germany? he's on log at off kind 5 going image trend of s dolphins signed us on, on logics. yet before don tucker, states had a different project the same pattern. a plant in syndrome was allegedly built in 2020 and had in fact, been there since 2014. as the information board at the entrance shows over the following months, we identified 16 such allegedly fraudulent project in china. almost all seem to have been submitted by different chinese companies. are germany's

carbon schemes and their potential loopholes common knowledge across china. could so many different companies be using the same trick? our colleagues from d d. s paging bureau went to visit some of the companies mentioned in the documents . at the 1st address, we were suppose to find a power distribution company which supposedly submitted to projects. our search, let us to the 5th floor. what's your take home? so i need to know how much you live in going see power the drum sigma a single. i'm a single mother, male male. the next company of science e to number 3. yeah,

and we don't, i don't don't use the projects that are not eligible companies that seemingly don't exist, things get more and more mysterious. then the plot thickens. the german environment agency received a letter from a chinese company. we have a copy, it claims that another company called beijing carbon new energy technology, had filed 5 projects and its name. without its knowledge, let alone consent. more over it states, beijing carbon had erroneous lee altered data. there was a high probability that the documents were forged. the company asked german authorities to investigate the flemish fed us and game change of enough time. does it as estimates the unvil funded entities steve children it minutes in the home with us about it? yes, the guns do i have to share in vice from ish,

best of us company chief thought. so it took this tip off from china to the german authorities to launch a full scale investigation. they referred the case to the prosecution. who as of now, is only looking into the german side, not the chinese company behind the whole scheme. chinese company records helped us investigate beach in carbon. it was founded in 2011 by a former official in the energy sector. together with her son and several others, they set up an opaque network of companies and some companies we find references to beijing carbon their employees or addresses and the documents of is 28 projects. our colleague tried to visit the company in beijing hall, called the woman to naples, going to cobb and the goals with either one of

the hall, foaming should double the intro. the manager she was told was unavailable. then they hung up as we tried to find out more about basing carbon, the companies seem to get nervous information we obtained suggest the company aspects, chinese business partners not to talk to the press. antique china media are using shady methods to smear old chinese projects. was allegedly citing these conversations, take project e q b t, another one of phasing carbons projects according to the documents. the site was inspected by 2 auditing companies, all together, 7 times. in their reports, the companies confirmed that the installation consisted of 6 big storage tanks for liquefied gas to 12 generators. the bit satellite images and photos they obtained only ever show for tanks and for

generators. how could the auditors possibly missed that the site is, has their own boss scientists. i believe i follow tomorrow by the time to come and see if i see the safety cause, i mean, drop me off con 5, because i know fremont if concession i've got to spend to get the auditors in this case for 2 companies with an excellent reputation in the industry, whether it be the answer is specialized and environmental certification. and the 2nd company, very co s. c. e. located in this picture, us village in southern germany has an equally good reputation. their executive chairman is known as one of the leading experts on carbon certification. $48.00 of the $66.00 chinese projects were audited by at least one of the 2 companies to stop. i can click on each side. does this plus stuck in front point? i can define as a employee act and click on the must be out and for these have improved film and

tactics and that's how it has a fault. all fine was been tied to that pushed and tyler this torsion says teams going to enjoy done is to situations if i go the miller b b and search and was eric o. s. c. e refused several requests for an on camera interview that replied in writing. we see no reason to doubt our auditing work, nor the work of our auditors. we are convinced that no criminal offense has been committed by the employees of our company. the prosecutor's office in berlin recently searched the premises of both those companies along with a 3rd one which audited a few other allegedly fraudulent projects that need to be mindful, speaking about spacing between this being a mom to keep my thoughts. zip sitting with fluid except yeah, this i'm going to cuz i have to screw up

a hold of me job. i tough on the type clicks on teams and politicians have also reacted members of parliament twice. some of the president of the environmental agency for questioning the agency has now placed $45.00 projects under suspicion. they are worth 1000000000 euros according to estimates. the projects could have saved the amount of carbon, a mega city like legal segments in one year. the agency says it is working to resend as many of the credits as possible, and the program is now closed to new applications. the full damage has yet to emerge. one thing, however, is already abundantly clear. it didn't take a lot to defraud a system that was supposed to make a dirty industry, a little cleaner with the right paperwork and the right people in the right places in germany. one chinese company was able to make hundreds of millions of years out of thin air

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