Carbon Conundrum.

FEATURES AS THE SKY CLEARED over rain-swept Southeast Alaska one August afternoon in 2019, we flew over Prince of Wales Island to take in its lush forests. In January 2018, BP Alaska, an American subsidiary of the London- based oil company formerly known as British Petroleum, announced that it had agreed to pay Sealaska $100 million to keep nearly half of this forestland 165,000 acres standing and thus storing the carbon trees absorb from the air in their living tissue. The Sealaska forest carbon project was calculated to add up to 11.4 million offsets credits, which means BP can offset nearly 11.4 million metric tons of its carbon emissions the amount that 2.36 million cars emit in a year through the project. We asked Catherine Mater, a former Sealaska forest consultant and an expert in forest carbon offsets, what she thought. [Extracted from the article]
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