Earning credits by keeping status quo seems fishy. Each $ of credit being tied to some unit of carbon captured, not retained, would be an "offset". And the sam

Earning credits by keeping status quo seems fishy. Each $ of credit being tied to some unit of carbon captured, not retained, would be an "offset". And the same tree can be sold umpteen times with the lack of accounting controls. So the whole idea is nice on paper and just bogus in reality.