Sentence examples for carbon offsetting scheme from inspiring English sources

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.

Fran Leedham: getting local people involved in carbon offsetting schemes keeps communities engaged and helps Jaguar Land Rover gather data.

JI is one of the three carbon offsetting schemes accredited by the Kyoto protocol – along with emissions trading and the clean development mechanism.

Carbon offsetting schemes are making a revival as businesses embrace the need to develop schemes that both reduce CO2 emissions and help communities in the developing world.

Personal and corporate carbon offsetting schemes – which allow people to balance out their carbon footprints by investing in clean energy projects such as solar or windfarms – became popular 10 years ago but have been criticised as ways for the rich to carry on polluting.

If someone invited me to a stag party in Prague I wouldn't go - what's wrong with Bournemouth?" Both men recognised that carbon offsetting schemes were not a perfect solution but argued that they demonstrated people were increasingly aware of the pollution they were causing and were "better than doing nothing".

One solution might be to donate some money to carbon offsetting schemes.

This is expected to lead to an income of more than $10bn a year by 2020 when a global carbon offset scheme is running.