The Life Cycle of a Carbon Offset

Learn how carbon offsets are created, how they are used to set against a company’s emissions and the systems in place to ensure they are achieving the environmental benefit tasked of them. This video has been created in collaboration with supporters Net Zero Markets, ACX and EEX Group.  

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