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The Download: Apple’s eucalyptus carbon bet, and climate tech’s bad vibes

Rhiannon Williams

created: April 24, 2025, 12:15 p.m. | updated: April 30, 2025, 12:31 p.m.

The grove grew as if indifferent to certain unspoken rules of botany. The rows of trees ran perhaps the length of a New York City block and fell away abruptly on either side into untidy fields of dirt and grass. It’s all about how Apple (and its peers) are planting vast forests of eucalyptus trees in Brazil to try to offset their climate emissions, striking some of the largest-ever deals for carbon credits in the process. The big question is: Can Latin America’s eucalyptus be a scalable climate solution? The vibes are shifting for US climate tech

2 months ago: MIT Technology Review