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carbon credit
[ kahr-buhn kred-it ]
noun
- a unit of one metric ton of carbon dioxide (or an equivalent mass of other atmospheric pollutants), as enumerated in the tradable permits that regulate atmospheric pollution in a cap-and-trade system:
Companies can accumulate carbon credits by funding new forest growth.
carbon credit
noun
- a certificate showing that a government or company has paid to have a certain amount of carbon dioxide removed from the environment
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of carbon credit1
Example Sentences
Those conversions earn carbon credit subsidies in the state鈥檚 carbon markets.
In Vaulted鈥檚 case, Frontier, along with Rubicon Carbon, count among the company鈥檚 first carbon credit customers, rather than seed funders.
But, she added, buyers in the carbon credit market can鈥檛 definitively claim that they鈥檝e offset their carbon emissions.
Department of Energy has stated a goal of seeing carbon credit prices below $100 per metric ton.
The interest in clean cooking as a climate solution has also given rise to a growing carbon credit market in which polluters such as airlines buy "cookstove credits" that pay for some portion of the transition from older to newer forms of household cooking 鈥 though a study Kammen co-authored this year showed that such credits often dramatically overestimate the emissions reductions that the new stoves achieve.
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