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What is offsetting?

The aim of carbon offsetting is to neutralise all or part of your carbon emissions in the atmosphere and therefore contribute to neutralising your impact on climate change.

In concrete terms, the emissions that we cannot reduce here can be neutralised by reductions elsewhere. Wherever the emission or removal of a ton of carbon from the atmosphere occurs, this will have an influence on global warming.

By financing reduction projects, we can actually offset a quantity of CO2 emitted in a given place by effectively reducing an equivalent quantity in another place.

There are various types of reduction projects:

  • Renewable energy:

    It generates energy without emitting additional greenhouse gases and allows traditional power plants powered by heating oil, gas or coal to be replaced. It primarily involves solar or photovoltaic power, wind power, hydraulic power or biomass.

  • Changing combustibles:

    Replacing one energy source with another that generates less greenhouse gases to obtain the same result: oil->gas; gas->biomass; biofuels.

  • Energy efficiency:

    Technologies that help to improve the yield of fossil fuels to produce less greenhouse gases to obtain the same result: energy-saving lighting, efficiency of industrial processes.

  • Collection and destruction:

    Of greenhouse gases: these plans aim to capture greenhouse gases at source before they escape, and destroy them while generating energy: methanisation.

  • Absorption and sequestration of CO2 :

    This refers to carbon dioxide sinks: especially reforestation projects.

Offset quality criteria

  • Project additionality: there would be no reductions in emissions without the financing provided by the sale of CERs.
  • Quantifiable reductions in relation to a baseline in the absence of the project by using accepted and transparent standard methodologies.
  • Permanence of reductions: the reductions are sustainable.
  • Unique attribution of CERs: guarantee of not financing the same reductions several times.
  • Control of projects in progress: verification of the reductions achieved.
  • Records: traceability of offsets and certificates.