REC vs. Carbon Offset: Do You Know the Difference?

Published March 12, 2009

Here is a great glossary on

Here is a great glossary on Carbon Performance language by CSA (the World Secretariat for the development of ISO 14064): www.csa.carbonperformance.org/index.asp?mode=glossary

we can supply a lot of RECs

we can supply a lot of RECs from largely "business as usual" renewables. Therefore, offsets should be used rather than RECs to neutralize Scope III emissions, to ensure that each ton emitted is wholly counterbalanced by an additional emission reduction.

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