• Both Jersey Police and the Serious Fraud Office have a file on Stephen Fern.
• Stephen Fern has 25+ court cases against him from 2008–2024. At least 7 are business-related cases. Two are court trials, of which he lost both cases for non-payment for works + costs.
• He has set up more than 6 businesses, all where he is the sole director, and all registered at different addresses. None of these businesses has produced ANY financial reports, and several have been STRUCK OFF.
• As at May 2024: active entities include:
  • Ark2030 Ltd (UK)
  • Ark 2030 C.I.C. (UK)
  • Climate Crisis Capital Ltd (UK)
  Dissolved entities include:
  • G9Ark Holdings Ltd (Jersey)
  • Ark3C Ltd (Jersey)
• Stephen Fern has ZERO staff nor a board of directors for any currently active company. During one recent hearing in Jersey’s courts, he was told by the judge that calling himself the ‘chairman’ was factually incorrect.
• He has claimed a ‘Canadian billionaire’ has donated $1bn to his project, and that funds were received in the bank.
• He claims that he was being supported by various VIPs and celebrities, including Prince (at that time) Charles, Rowan Atkinson, Bear Grylls, Matt Damon, Wim Hoff and Greta Thunberg amongst many other famous ‘connections’. Plus, he claims a direct line to the Pope and now, to King Charles III.
• Stephen Fern has at least 4 Cease & Desist actions against him, from Greta Thunberg, Becoming X, Coco Airlie Consulting and The Platinum Rhino Farm. He also has a Malicious Communications Report against him, lodged with the UK police.
• More than 130 people invested as Founding Members into Ark2030 and heard NOTHING for over 3 years.
• His websites for Ark2030, The Ark2030 Foundation, Climate Crisis Capital, NBS Carbon Exchange, G9HQ and The Ark Summit have all been taken down due to NON-PAYMENT.
• Stephen Fern was taken to court in Jersey, for accepting funds for shares in a business that he never set up. He lost the case (see Court Cases, below).
• Stephen Fern raised over €20,000 in public donations for a project to protect white rhinos in Africa. None of the funds went to the rhino project in question. £10,000 was donated to TUSK but the promised matching donor never materialised. Thousands were kept as commissions after Stephen Fern declared he’d waiver all his and the platform’s fees. Another £1,500 was held back for refunds! At no point did he tell those who’d donated that their money was no longer going to the Rhino Platinum Project.

James Brett – Plant4Peace

“Quite honestly the worst human I’ve ever had the displeasure of being involved with. He lied relentlessly and never delivered on anything.”

Keith O’Leary – Founder of Ledme

“A sustainable world is not one with a charlatan like Stephen Fern. Society can’t be expected to fight a climate crisis when it’s used as a weapon to strip them of their purpose like he did to me through blatant lies and bullshit.

“How many more had their hopes of helping the world to become better place destroyed and diminished because of him. How many people with good intentions innovation and willingness to do good gave up because of this?

“When you see people use the climate crisis as a way to con people out of their money and motivation, we as a society have failed, and it won’t be the warming that kills us but the cold harness of lies and corruption that surrounds it.”

Rhona Morrell – Founder iReGen Limited

“Where do I start? Liar, manipulator, carrot dangler, coercive, bully, zero results, consistent lies, no updates in over 3 years as a paid founding member, no accounts, no team, no transparency, and I still don’t know who the “we” is in any of his communications. 4 years on and nothing other than threats to bankrupt me and my family and reputationally destroy me, such a delightful human to be taking money from people in the impact, ESG, sustainability and regenerative industry. Avoid!”

James Atkins – Entrepreneur in climate and biodiversity businesses

“I was very disappointed in Stephen and Ark. Despite my better judgment, giving him the benefit of the doubt, I paid a sponsorship fee of several thousand euros to support his efforts early on, and signed up as a founding member. No communication. None of the introductions to potential investors which were implied or offered. Couldn’t even get a proper invoice for my payment despite numerous requests. There was some huge vision and great ambition, but it turned out to be pretty much a fabrication with little substance and zero professional infrastructure behind it.”

Ian Bell – Partner & Chief Innovation Officer

“Stephen Fern owes my company over $100k, has fraudulently used my name in vain and has exploited our network for selfish gain under the pretence of doing good. The extent of his impact is shameful and staggering. It is unfortunately, however, the tip of the melting iceberg.

“I worked with Stephen Fern for a year having been introduced by a high-integrity banking contact and well-known film producer. I shaped the naming, GTM strategy and inner circle assembly of the first iteration of the Ark.

“It sounds fanciful to say this but prior to this work Stephen had genuinely no idea who Paul Polman was, a very limited network within FMCG and no team around him other than family office and finance contacts (many of which but not all were fake). From the inner circle assembled we got him to directly to Jeff Bezos, Paul Polman, the Unilever executive team, the Nestle executive team, the co-founder of Earth Hour and his current charity (Andy Ridley) and many many others. We even attended launch events in Australia co-branded with the Ark and other charities. My consulting entity worked full-time for months under a commercial arrangement and in good faith for much longer. During that time he claimed in writing significant associations and endorsements with many prestigious organisations and people including Cambridge University and Sophia Wellesley. We even assisted in the official assembly of a board including Sophia, Andy Ridley and others. To be clear this was the tip of the iceberg. This quote could be a book. We have many of his lies on record. I’m still close friends with the introductory contacts, they are successful and trustworthy people. This is an example of his level of coercion, deception and frankly evil modus operandi that he was able to deceive such people. I was one of hundreds. The sheer amount of people and companies he has tainted is staggering to the extent that it would genuinely have tarnished the integrity of Jersey and the UK, in terms of sustainability and impact investment. He must be stopped.”