When businesses quantify their carbon emissions and make up for what they have produced through carbon offset programmes, they become carbon neutral. Along with avoiding them and reducing them, offsetting carbon emissions is a crucial step in comprehensive climate action.
Because greenhouse gases, such CO2, spread equally throughout the atmosphere, their concentration is essentially constant throughout the earth. Consequently, it makes little difference where on Earth emissions are created or avoided in terms of the global concentration of greenhouse gases and the greenhouse gas effect.
So, emissions that cannot be reduced locally can be compensated for by carbon offset initiatives in other cities.
For instance, using afforestation, renewable energy sources, or forest conservation can accomplish this.
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