Forests, trees as carbon offsets - World temperature suddenly started rising with fossil fuel-based economic expansion.

There is a major rush of businesses investing in raising forests which would sequester carbon dioxide and allow investing companies to offset their emissions (or trade them) against forest-based carbon offsets. The Sindh government has completed one such transaction through Sindh forest department, whereby a carbon offset from a mangrove forest in the Indus delta has been sold to international buyers. [Extracted from the article]