offsets

• In late March Congressmen Henry Waxman and Ed Markey released the first draft of a climate bill that presents three mechanisms designed to provide funding for reducing tropical deforestation: offsets, a supplemental pollution reduction program, and strategic reserve auctions. —  Cleantech Blog
• The money bought "offsets," which fund projects that reduce greenhouse gases, such as capturing methane from farm manure ponds, that supposedly wouldn't have happened without the investment. —  timesunion.com: Local Breaking News
• The offsets were aimed at DNC-goers other than the official delegates, who had a separate carbon offset program through Vermont-based Native Energy. —  GraniteGrok
• The EU is the world's biggest buyer of carbon offsets, and last month agreed climate targets which allowed EU states and companies to offset up to 3 billion tons of their greenhouse gas emissions from 2008-2020, or more than the annual emissions of the Netherlands. —  EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed
• Carbon credits or offsets are a theoretical way for you to assuage your guilt for all those awful greenhouse gases you're releasing into the air whenever you heat your house, drive your car, or even breathe. —  Rainforest Portal RSS Newsfeed

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