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Once hailed as a climate fintech innovator, Aspiration Partners’s collapse is shaking trust in carbon offsets and ESG startups.

Welcome to NetZero Now, a weekly newsletter from The Morning Context that covers the latest developments in the burgeoning energy, climate and cleantech ecosystem.
Swipe your debit card and save the planet. That was the promise Aspiration Partners sold to its investors and creditors. Turns out, it was all eyewash.
Now, some of you might say that the premise sounds like a gimmick, if not an outright scam. But there were people who actually thought the idea was legit. Like Hollywood A-listers Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert Downey Jr, American supermodel Cindy Crawford, Canadian rapper Drake and LA Clippers owner Steve …