OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 36802

carbon offset

Meanings (ES + gloss)
compensación de carbono
A reduction in carbon dioxide emission by a third party purchased by a heavy carbon dioxide producer as part of carbon emissions trading.
Carbon offsets do seem to offer the most direct way to assuage traveler’s guilt. In theory, they magically expiate your sins.
Today, if you want to counter the carbon impacts you create from flying, you too can buy carbon offsets.
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