Carbon Credits 101

Carbon Offsets 101 will teach you all about these instruments, from their origins in the United Nations climate change treaties through to today's federal and state efforts to regulate them.  You will learn how and why they originated, how they are created as instruments and traded, the differences between offsets and other environmental commodities, the types of offset markets, their role in carbon accounting, "additionality," "insetting," "greenhushing," and other key concepts and controversies.