carbon trading

British  

noun

1. the trading by a country with a relatively low level of carbon dioxide emission of part of its emission entitlement to a country that has a higher level of emission

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Example Sentences

The government is set to begin negotiations to link the UK to the EU's carbon trading regime, around six months after the sides agreed to open talks.

From BBC

“Offsetting is a misnomer,” said Barbara Haya, director of the Berkeley Carbon Trading Project at the University of California, Berkeley.

From New York Times

"Cookstove offset methodologies are currently being revised and if our recommendations are adopted could become a rare project type that offset buyers can trust," said Barbara Haya, an expert on offset quality and director of the Berkeley Carbon Trading Project in UC Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy.

From Science Daily

Other countries have toyed with the idea of personal carbon trading, with pilot schemes set up in Finland and Australia's Norfolk Island.

From Reuters

That's a billion-dollar idea that birthed the carbon trading system in which companies or individuals can purchase carbon "offsets" like planting trees to balance out carbon emissions.

From Salon