Tata Steel has bought nearly 72,000 carbon offsets from steel projects.
And that's before we consider the offsets from income and payroll taxes paid by these workers.
And the Kyoto rules do not allow countries to sell offsets from avoided-deforestation schemes.
You can, however, keep a constant supply of productive plants by taking offsets from a good parent.
Under the safeguard rules, companies which exceed their baseline can pay a penalty or buy carbon offsets from other companies.
He pointedly noted that the aid was approved "without requiring offsets from other important programs, as House Republicans have demanded".
"The safeguard mechanism framework starting on 1 July clearly says companies that exceed their baselines can buy offsets from another company.
A year ago, they bought carbon offsets from the Bonneville Environmental Foundation for about $150 to offset the estimated yearly carbon emissions from their Subaru wagon.
So the vote by the EC's climate change committee to ban the industrial gas offsets from 1 January 2013 should sail through, right?
Instead, tax losses, as well as other tax offsets from taxable income, are reported under a different labels on the company tax return.
As part of my cap-and-trade incentives, I will also propose to include the purchase of offsets from those outside the scope of the trading system.
