It takes one tree to offset the emissions from 57 fans.
So, Direct Action (ie taxpayer) funded projects would need to cut enough emissions to offset the emissions of non-participants.
Will developing countries build enormous air-capture plants, powered by coal, to offset the emissions associated with industrialisation?
The carbon emissions saved will offset the emissions produced at night, when Masdar draws power from those same natural-gas plants.
She said that the Power Authority had agreed to offset the emissions generated by these turbines by putting tighter controls on emissions generated from other nearby plants.
Mahowald pointed out that aerosols related to human activity reduced carbon dioxide concentrations and also offset the emissions of carbon dioxide.
That total is 17 tons per year in the U.S., according to the World Bank — so the device would, in effect, offset the emissions of around 21 people.
Such credits are likely to have some continued value, because they can be used in other environmental programs that allow their use, like voluntary ones through which companies offset the emissions generated by having a conference or travelers opt to pay a fee to offset the emissions from an airplane flight.
However, manufacturers, including Nissan, PSA Peugeot Citroen and Mitsubishi, are in a race to sell electric cars on the mass market, partly fuelled by EU legislation encouraging companies to produce electric cars to offset the emissions of the manufacturers' higher emission vehicles.
While it was an important step, the scheme uses questionable calculations in order to offset the emissions abroad, and once again, fails to take into account the damaging impact of non-CO2 emissions from aircraft.
