It is not so good to plant trees, if there are carbon credits.
Planting trees in general is a positive thing, you plant a small tree in your garden and the result is a shade that improves the climate of your house, especially if you live in cities and warm places, the green of its foliage brightens your eyes and has a positive psychological impact and also serves as a refuge for insects, birds and mammals.
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If we plant enough trees, one trillion according to the 2019 study, you would solve most of the climate crisis. When the study was published, its optimism generated at least three international tree-planting campaigns, but now 5 years later one of the co-authors of the study He retracted it, first accepting that the estimates he had shown in the study were too optimistic and published another study with more conservative figures. In fact, later studies had already questioned the magnitude of the reduction of CO2 in the atmosphere that his original study argued. , but the main reason why the author of this study recanted at the United Nations climate conference in Dubai is blood carbon.
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Blood charcoal is a problem that has become more serious as a result of so many reforestation campaigns. Blood charcoal is the climate equivalent of blood diamonds, which are called that because they are extracted by dispossessing people of their land and exploiting extremely poor people in places where they were cursed with diamonds like Congo, Botswana and South Africa, blood coal is something similar and exists thanks to Carbon credits.
This solution is obviously not ideal, the ideal is for each company to reduce its own emissions, but the carbon credit model at least helps its net emissions to be lower, that is in theory, the bad thing is that in practice It is very different, since a report by the non-governmental organization survivalinternational.org highlights the practices of one of the environmental projects that sell carbon credits to companies like Netflix and Facebook, it is assumed that they generate carbon credits by modifying the practices. grazing of some communities in Kenya, because it helps the recovery of vegetation that would potentially absorb CO2 from the atmosphere.
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The bad thing is that no one asked these communities for consent and a practice was imposed on them that was different from the one they had been carrying out since ancient times, all of this without empirical proof that their old form of grazing damaged the surrounding vegetation.
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