nostr:npub1e0sg4hfxaeu67vmpx2vfedru765lyw35yp7t4r7uhwswra3hxzsqjan6zr more complicated than that. Trees might be planted in places where they won’t grow well. Forest fires burning down carbon offset tree farms.
nostr:npub153su4huygmnnkc0wvxvzmhmps46vw9hmqggq4v6e8jya5ejc6lxq42cvd9 Is the problem not that trees don’t take up CO2, but that companies lie about how many they plant?
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nostr:npub1e0sg4hfxaeu67vmpx2vfedru765lyw35yp7t4r7uhwswra3hxzsqjan6zr And grasslands are pretty good at storing carbon. If you destroy a native grassland to plant trees as a carbon offset, the trees might not hold as much carbon and you may well end up with more carbon releases than had the project never happened.