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Carbon Offsets An Overview for Scientific societies Richard Kim and Benjamin C. Pierce Version June 24, 2018 Executive summary Carbon Offsets are mechanisms allowing individuals and organizations to offset activities (such as air travel) that emit Carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and other greenhouse gases by funding mitigating activities (such as landfill methane capture) elsewhere. For scientific societies , where air travel to conferences plays a central role in the organization s activities, Carbon Offsets offer an immediate response to the issue of climate change while longer-term, more comprehensive plans to reduce Carbon emissions are being developed.
For scientific societies, where air travel to conferences plays a central role in the organization’s activities, carbon offsets offer an immediate response to the issue of climate change while longer-term, more comprehensive ... industrial and agricultural processes and to biosequestration (e.g., planting trees), to deploying
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