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Virtual Storeroom for Carbon Offsets [ARCHIVED] (Cancelled)

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Description

The 2015 iCAP chapter 8, objective 2 is, "By the end of FY17, develop an administrative mechanism to enable campus units to voluntarily purchase carbon offsets."  During FY17 and 18, iSEE investigated options to build a virtual storeroom for carbon offsets. The idea was to pre-purchase...View full description »

Background

Carbon Offsets need to have true additionality in order to actually impact the global emission levels.  One explanation of additionality is available online at http://www.co2offsetresearch.org/consumer/Additionality.html.

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Dates

  • Proposed March 4, 2016
    Proposed by Ben McCall
    Investigated October 10, 2016
    Investigated by Ben McCall
    Cancelled January 31, 2018
    Cancelled by Evan DeLucia

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