内容摘要：took office. The AP was unable to determine exactly how the policy defined the phrase “romantic or sexual relationship.”

took office. The AP was unable to determine exactly how the policy defined the phrase “romantic or sexual relationship.”

Riot police officers take defensive positions as they clash with protesters rallying against controversial changes to election laws that could further enhance the political influence of outgoing President Joko Widodo, in Jakarta, Indonesia, Aug. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)Riot police officers take defensive positions as they clash with protesters rallying against controversial changes to election laws that could further enhance the political influence of outgoing President Joko Widodo, in Jakarta, Indonesia, Aug. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

A supporter of Sri Lanka’s main opposition holds his shoes in hands as police fire water cannons to disperse them during a protest rally against high taxes and increases in electricity and fuel charges, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Jan. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)A supporter of Sri Lanka’s main opposition holds his shoes in hands as police fire water cannons to disperse them during a protest rally against high taxes and increases in electricity and fuel charges, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Jan. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)Mongolian honor guards prepare for a ceremony marking the first session of the newly elected Parliament in front of the Government Palace on Sukhbaatar Square in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, July 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Mongolian honor guards prepare for a ceremony marking the first session of the newly elected Parliament in front of the Government Palace on Sukhbaatar Square in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, July 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)Students from anti-discrimination movements attack an Awami League supporter in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Nov. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Students from anti-discrimination movements attack an Awami League supporter in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Nov. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Chinese military band members rehearse, before the opening session of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, or CPPCC, in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, March 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)A diagram illustrating a project to add sodium hydroxide to the ocean is displayed by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Friday, Jan. 31, 2025, in Hyannis, Mass. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

“It’s like the Wild West. Everybody is on the bandwagon, everybody wants to do something,” said Adina Paytan, who teaches earth and ocean science at the University of California, Santa Cruz.Planetary, like most of the ocean startups, is financing its work by selling carbon credits — or tokens representing one metric ton of carbon dioxide removed from the air. Largely unregulated and

, carbon credits have become popular this century as a way for companies to purchase offsets rather than reduce emissions themselves. Most credits are priced at several hundred dollars apiece.The industry sold more than 340,000 marine carbon credits last year, up from just 2,000 credits four years ago, according to the tracking site CDR.fyi. But that amount of carbon removal is a tiny fraction of what scientists say will be required to keep the planet livable for centuries to come.