I read about a guy in South Africa who would plant trees and sell carbon credits for them through NGOs. He said that when the trees were big enough the natives would cut them down for firewood.
South Africa has a lively black market in coal, selling loads of it illegally to european nations who are desperate for it.
“He said that when the trees were big enough the natives would cut them down for firewood.”
Actually that is the only way that planting trees makes sense for reducing co2. Burn them instead of gas. If you don’t, they eventually will die and rot and release all the co2 they captured.