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Taylor Swift threatens legal action against student tracking her private jet
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Problem is that the more fraudulent offsets you buy, the more that get created to fill the demand for them. You can't buy your way out of this problem.
With enough money and oversight, you could probably could just make your own carbon offset program. How to do the accounting is inherently tricky though. If you bought up a bunch of land and planted trees there where there is none, but it was land that was going to be used for that same purpose or for a solar farm or wind turbines anyways, you didn't really do anything except maybe start a month earlier.
Yes proving additionality is hard.