Serdar Vardar

Serdar Vardar is an award-winning investigative journalist at the Environment Desk of Deutsche Welle.

He specialises in cross-border projects related to environmental crimes, the climate crisis, corruption, and tax evasion. Vardar brings a global perspective to his work, having grown up in Turkey before studying political philosophy in Buenos Aires, Argentina. After spending 15 years working across Brazil, Argentina, and Chile, he relocated to Germany in 2019 and started to work with DW.

Basic information

Name

Serdar Vardar

Title

Investigative Journalist

Expertise

Environmental crimes, corruption

Country

Germany

City

Berlin

Website

Readymag

Links

Supported projects

Carbon Credits Market's Footprint in Europe

Climate
Environment

TALLINN - The lack of regulation of the voluntary carbon market, together with the influx of capital, creates conditions for marketing of ineffective solutions, or even outright scams. This cross-border investigation looks at the exploitation of 'green' opportunities for personal gain — in Estonia, Lithuania and Italy.