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

Well the company is claiming that their company will be carbon neutral in 10-20 years, not that the entire world will be.

Also the majority of those companies will not actually be carbon neutral in that time. They can say in now because everyone will have forgotten in 20 years.