The Ins and Outs of Carbon Offsets

To be a carbon-neutral company, you must balance the amount of CO2 your business emits (your carbon footprint) with equal reductions in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. You can shrink your footprint significantly by reducing your greenhouse gas emissions. But a skinny carbon footprint won't necessarily make your business carbon neutral. To do that, you'll need to offset your remaining greenhouse gas emissions. We'll show you how:

How Carbon Offsets Work

A carbon offset represents the reduction of a specific amount of greenhouse gases. By purchasing carbon offsets, you help finance the development of clean and renewable energy projects such as wind turbines, solar arrays, methane projects for family farms and landfill gas capture systems. Your purchase adds more clean energy to the power grid, thus reducing the demand for electricity from fossil fuels. ...