Timber companies claim carbon credits for trees they don’t cut down
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/21/redd-carbon-credits-amazon-peru/
by Creative_soja
Timber companies claim carbon credits for trees they don’t cut down
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/21/redd-carbon-credits-amazon-peru/
by Creative_soja
3 comments
>The company isn’t earning credits by planting trees to absorb carbon dioxide. The offsets it sells are based on a hypothetical: An estimate of how many existing trees it prevents from being cut down.
What is scam !!!
Non-paywalled link 😉
https://archive.is/0S7I8
The growth incentive of capitalism will always cause such measures to be teethless.
Because sustainability is diametral to maximal extraction of ressources and wealth.