November 11, 2008
Climate-Commitment Backers Release a Guide to Offsets at Sustainability Conference
Raleigh, N.C.
The organizers of the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment have released guidelines that tackle the purchase of offsets, which is one of the most complicated and controversial issues in the quest for climate neutrality.
Offsets are projects that balance greenhouse-gas emissions in one place by lowering them someplace else. A university pays for tree-planting projects, for instance, to balance the emissions from the power plants that provide its
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