How are so many companies getting away with claiming to be carbon-zero in the next 10-20 years when it seems pretty much impossible?

Question

Wouldn’t our entire planet need to be covered in trees for this to even be close to realistic?

In: Planetary Science

Answer 1

Many of the companies that claim this are not actually going carbon neutral.  They’re simply buying carbon credits from shady companies that sell existing forests over and over again as “carbon credits”.  John Oliver had a whole special on it.