It's complicated, but John Oliver did a good segment on it. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6p8zAbFKpW0 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6p8zAbFKpW0 Planting trees

It's complicated, but John Oliver did a good segment on it. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6p8zAbFKpW0 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6p8zAbFKpW0 Planting trees is not an easy solution. https://e360.yale.edu/features/phantom-forests-tree-planting-climate-change https://e360.yale.edu/features/phantom-forests-tree-planting... A major problem is that monitoring and verification is patchy. A carbon credit is in theory something like X ton-years, but there is no guarantee that what you pay for will be around in X years and policing us extremely difficult. X is traditionally 100 years. If I sell you a carbon credit and then cut all my trees down, what happens? Another is fraudulent sites - people selling credits for sites that already exist, we're already planned for protection, etc.