"carbon offset scheme" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a program or system designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by offsetting, or compensating for, the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere through various methods such as investing in renewable energy or conservation projects. Example: The government has implemented a new carbon offset scheme to encourage businesses to reduce their carbon footprint and mitigate the effects of climate change.
Carbon offset schemes allow individuals and companies to invest in environmental projects around the world in order to balance out their own carbon footprints.
Some of these concerns are valid, but in truth most of the best-known carbon offset schemes have long-since switched from tree planting to clean-energy projects – anything from distributing efficient cooking stoves through to capturing methane gas at landfill sites.
Our focus is on firm-level cap-and-trade systems, although much of what we say would also apply to government-level trading and carbon offset schemes.
It also highlights the challenges associated with designing carbon offset schemes that address the impacts of climate change and respond to Indigenous peoples' world views about what is required to sustain cultural-social-ecological systems.
Our study shows that many Indigenous people engage in carbon offset schemes as part of their broader cultural responsibility for landscapes, and that they seek to grow the relationship between social and ecological benefits.
One of Planktos's best-known carbon offset schemes was a plan to dump tons of small particles of iron in the ocean near the Galapagos Islands, thereby fertilizing the phytoplankton to grow faster and absorb more CO2.
A key carbon offsetting scheme was so open to abuse that three quarters of its allowances lacked environmental integrity, a new report says.
The incorporation of carbon offsetting scheme into a non-offset quota trading scheme will reduce its equilibrium carbon price, thereby mitigate its negative impact on industry's total output in the product market by an either linear or quadratic form, depending on the design for the proportion ceiling of offsetting quota.
In the industry's view, a single global carbon offsetting scheme offers the swiftest and most effective approach.
It is certainly true that some carbon offsetting schemes are dubious.
JI is one of the three carbon offsetting schemes accredited by the Kyoto protocol – along with emissions trading and the clean development mechanism.
