Worldwide Commodity Partners

{{short description|Defunct financial services company}}

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.{{cite news|title=More multi-million pound carbon credit companies are shut down following Insolvency Service investigations|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/more-multi-million-pound-carbon-credit-companies-are-shut-down-following-insolvency-service-investigations|accessdate=24 August 2017|work=The Insolvency Service|date=23 May 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://www.iii.co.uk/articles/169361/investors-lose-out-bogus-schemes-shut-down|title=Investors lose out as bogus schemes shut down|website=Interactive Investor|accessdate=24 August 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/14978355.Man_who_cost_public___3million_with_carbon_credit_scheme_banned_from_being_company_director_for_15_years/|title=Man who cost public £3million with carbon credit scheme banned from being company director for 15 years|website=Echo|accessdate=24 August 2017}}

Worldwide Commodity Partners had been named "Fastest Growing Broker, Western Europe, 2012" in the World Finance Awards.{{cite news|last1=Lang|first1=Chris|title=Worldwide Commodity Partners Limited – another carbon credit boiler room?|url=http://www.redd-monitor.org/2012/07/19/worldwide-commodity-partners-limited-another-carbon-credit-boiler-room/|accessdate=24 August 2017|work=REDD-Monitor|date=19 July 2012}}[https://web.archive.org/web/20120717014319/http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/investigations/2012/07/so-how-exactly-did-worldwide-c.html "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.