The carbon credits based on counterfactuals (e.g. how many trees on this forest would have been cut down in some alternate universe) are true insanity. Impossi

The carbon credits based on counterfactuals (e.g. how many trees on this forest would have been cut down in some alternate universe) are true insanity. Impossible to verify by their very nature, and the schemes to estimate their truthfulness (measuring deforestation of neighboring forests) are easy to game. For instance the owner of a forest that wouldn't have been deforested anyway can claim he would have, then pay locals a smaller reward to ruin neighboring forests to "verify" the legitimacy of his claim.