Carbon offsetting

Carbon offsetting is a process allowing greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction by purchasing credits from emission reduction projects or carbon trading schemes.

For an organization, offsetting one's emissions consists, after having measured and reduced its emissions within its own organization as far as is economically and technically possible, of reducing emissions due to activities that it can not avoid, as of today, somewhere else in the world, either through:

– preventing emissions; or

– carbon capture and storage.