>When top, public facing companies like Jet blue or Microsoft buy carbon offsets, they don’t want to get scammed.
Don't they benefit from the status quo? It's not the companies that get scammed, it's the people who select the cheap "offset my carbon footprint" option when getting a plane ticket and pay for JetBlue to transfer that money to some scammy offsetting service. JetBlue gets good PR for contributing to "carbon offsetting programs" on behalf of customers - which are cheap enough because the market is not heavily regulated.
I don't trust international corporations to do anything but optimize to make more money.
Don't they benefit from the status quo? It's not the companies that get scammed, it's the people who select the cheap "offset my carbon footprint" option when getting a plane ticket and pay for JetBlue to transfer that money to some scammy offsetting service. JetBlue gets good PR for contributing to "carbon offsetting programs" on behalf of customers - which are cheap enough because the market is not heavily regulated.
I don't trust international corporations to do anything but optimize to make more money.