1. Carbon sink is a process, activity or mechanism to remove greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Forest carbon sink refers to the process, activity and mechanism of forest plants absorbing and fixing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere through photosynthesis, such as reducing deforestation, desertification control and protecting wetlands, and combining it with policy, management and carbon trading.

Generally speaking, carbon trading refers to the trading activities of greenhouse gas emission rights or carbon emission space conducted by trading entities in accordance with relevant rules, with the main purpose of reducing emission reduction costs and promoting the response to climate change. At present, the products (subject matter) of domestic carbon trading are mainly emission quotas, that is, the carbon emission quotas allocated by the government to key emission units in a specific period; Secondly, the national certification of voluntary emission reduction refers to the voluntary emission reduction of greenhouse gases registered in the national registration system according to the Interim Measures for the Administration of Voluntary Emission Reduction Trading of Greenhouse Gases promulgated and implemented by the National Development and Reform Commission, referred to as CCER. Moreover, in the national certified emission reduction transaction from the project, the emission reduction of forestry carbon sink project is only a product type, and most of the products are emission reduction projects from other 15 professional fields such as energy industry, energy distribution, energy demand, manufacturing industry, chemical industry, construction industry, transportation, mineral products and metal production. Therefore, carbon trading only belongs to the category of carbon trading, but carbon trading is not equal to carbon trading.

Second, after the concepts of carbon trading and carbon sink trading were introduced into China, some people thought that they could make money by using the concept of carbon sink, so they quickly set up "forestry carbon sink company" and "carbon sink forest company", but everything they did was either unrelated to carbon sink or provided false information. There are also some people who publicize the wrong concepts such as "carbon sink forest species" and "carbon sink forest seedlings" to mislead the public and take the opportunity to make profits. Some people even use carbon sinks to illegally raise funds, gamble and sell pyramid schemes.

Three. According to Article 7 of Order No.444th of the State Council, the following acts belong to pyramid schemes:

(1) Organizers or business operators, through the development of personnel, require the developed personnel to send other personnel to join them, and calculate and pay remuneration (including material rewards and other economic benefits, the same below) to the developed personnel on the basis of the number of personnel directly or indirectly developed, so as to seek illegal benefits;

(2) The organizer or business operator, through the development personnel, requires the developed personnel to pay the fees or pay the fees in disguised form by subscribing for commodities, etc. , so as to obtain the qualification of participants, develop other people to join, and seek illegal interests; (3) The organizer or business operator requires the developed personnel to develop other personnel to join, thus forming an online relationship, and calculating and paying online rewards according to the sales performance of offline personnel to seek illegal benefits.