How to Buy Carbon Offsets

An Increasingly Popular Way for organizations to demonstrate their environmental stewardship is through carbon offsets. Essentially, groups acknowledge their carbon footprint — the total tonnage of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere by their activities, including travel — and then buy “offsets” or “verified emission reductions” (VERs) to bring them to carbon “neutrality” or “balance.” One “offset” reduces one ton of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere when your offset purchase