I get very frustrated by "carbon credits". This is an example of criminal fraud. But the whole idea is begging for fraud. It is a fraudulent concept from start to finish
Reminds me of the Catholic's concept of "indulgences". Sin the sins, pay a fee, and go to heaven.
In this case the "sins", and the sinners, are burning the world for profit
This is probably a misunderstanding of mine, but I fear that it isn't: "Oh, if I can quantify the square meters of forest absorbing CO2, someone will pay me money per sqm? Then let me map how many sqm this forest has, which been here and doing that absorbing since millenia, and someone somewhere in the industrialized world can now pollute and say the x sqm they've paid for is offsetting their pollution!"...
Reminds me of the Catholic's concept of "indulgences". Sin the sins, pay a fee, and go to heaven.
In this case the "sins", and the sinners, are burning the world for profit