Carbon compensation

Carbon compensation is an approach which consists in implementing projects to reduce or capture and sequester carbon in another location after having attempted to reduce CO₂ emissions in one location. These projects can involve energy efficiency, renewable energy production, or even reforestation.

This approach is based on the fact that the greenhouse effect is a global phenomenon and that a quantity of carbon emitted in one place can be compensated by the reduction or sequestration of the same quantity in another place.