41 resultaten gevonden voor 'carbon offsetting'

carbon offsetting

mechanism for compensating for all or for a part of the carbon footprint of a product (3.11.1) or the partial carbon footprint of a product (3.11.2) through the prevention of the release (3.5.19) of, reduction in, or removal of an amount of greenhouse gas emissions (3.9.8) in a process (3.1.9) outside the product system (3.5.1) under study

carbon offsetting

mechanism for compensating for all or a part of the CFP (3.1.1.1) or the partial CFP (3.1.1.2) through the prevention of the release of, reduction in, or removal of an amount of GHG emissions (3.1.2.5) in a process (3.1.3.5) outside the product system (3.1.3.2) under study

offsetting

mechanism for compensating for the carbon footprint of a product through the prevention of the release of, reduction in, or removal of, an equivalent amount of GHG emissions in a process outside the boundary of the product system

carbon credit

tradable certificate or permit that represents the right to emit a specified amount of greenhouse gases (3.6.15)

carbon metric

sum of annual greenhouse gas emissions (3.6.16) and removals, expressed as CO2 equivalents, associated with the use stage of a construction works

carbon tax

environmental tax on emissions of carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases (3.6.15)

bio-based carbon biogenic carbon

carbon derived from biomass

carbon cycle

biogeochemical cycle by which carbon is exchanged amongst the biosphere, pedosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere of the earth