[Reason077]

What if I bought up a bunch of coal on the open market, and sold carbon offsets against it? For each offset sold I’d bury the corresponding coal again, permanently preventing it from being burned.

Seems like this could be quite profitable, especially since I can sell 2.86 tonnes of carbon offsets for each tonne of coal.

Perhaps we could go a step further, skip the intermediate steps, and just pay coal miners to leave the coal in the ground?