about offsetting

What is Carbon Offsetting?

Carbon Offsetting is funding wind and solar energy projects that don’t create harmful gas emissions to compensate for our own emissions, it's about protecting the rain forest, it's about bringing low carbon technologies to market.

This is what Defra says:

“Carbon offsetting involves calculating your emissions and then purchasing ‘credits’ from emission reduction projects. These projects have prevented or removed an equivalent amount of carbon dioxide elsewhere”.