Whats Carbon Offsetting?
When you purchase carbon offsets, you help fund projects that prevent one ton of greenhouse gases from being emitted for each ton that you have caused. Carbon offset providers sell the greenhouse gas reductions associated with projects like wind farms or methane-capture facilities to customers who want to offset the emissions they caused by flying, driving, or using electricity. (Though they’re called “carbon” offsets, they offset all greenhouse gases that cause global warming, from carbon dioxide to methane.) What’s Carbon Neutral? Becoming carbon neutral means balancing carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels by supporting renewable energy that creates a similar amount of useful energy, compensating for carbon dioxide emissions. The term also applies to using only renewable energy sources which do not produce emissions. Here’s what you can do? Carbon offsetting is one of many economic actions you can take to address climate change, and it is a powerful o
