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By Ben Elgin and Zachary Mider
Bloomberg<\/em>
Dec. 20, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

Excerpt<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

GreenTrees declines to say how many of its landowners enrolled existing trees, but it appears to include the majority. A project report from 2017 that lists planting dates for 380 tracts of land participating in the carbon program indicates that 258 (or 68%) were seeded before the GreenTrees project began in 2008. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to see the climate benefit in that,\u201d says Royal Gardner<\/a>, a law professor at Stetson University who studies environmental markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article was originally published on the Bloomberg website on Dec. 20, 2020, with the headline, “The Real Trees Delivering Fake Corporate Climate Progress<\/a>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

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