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What's Happening from Environmental Building News
January 1, 2007
Report Guides Carbon Offset Customers
A variety of companies sell products that allow consumers and organizations to reduce their carbon footprint by buying a product, a “carbon offset,” whose revenue goes toward supporting projects that reduce emissions elsewhere. However, the voluntary market for this kind of environmental commodity is immature. In the words of “A Consumer’s Guide to Retail Carbon Offset Providers,” a December 2006 report from New Hampshire-based Clean Air–Cool Planet, “In the absence of an accepted standard, almost anyone can offer to sell you almost anything and claim that this purchase will make you carbon neutral.” Written by Trexler Climate + Energy Services, Inc., of Portland, Oregon, the report offers several recommendations based on a study of retail offset providers....
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