By Shanna Hanbury Meta, the company that owns Facebook and Instagram, recently closed a deal to buy 1.3 million carbon removal credits from commercial tree plantations in Latin America, with an option for an additional 2.6 million credits through 2038. The agreement, called “one of the largest of its kind,” was struck with Latin America’s largest investment bank, BTG Pactual. The Forests & Finance policy assessment platform rates BTG Pactual’s environment policies at a 0.9 of 10 due to billions invested in beef and pulp companies with links to deforestation. The Meta deal with BTG was struck t…