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Handbook of Carbon Offset Programs

This handbook provides a systematic and comprehensive review of existing offset programs. It looks are what offsets are, how offset mechanisms function, and the successes and pitfalls they have encountered.

Anja Kollmuss, Michael Lazarus, Carrie M. Lee / Published on 6 April 2010
Citation

Kollmuss, A., Lazarus, M. Lee, C. LeFranc, M., Polycarp, C. (2010). Handbook of Carbon Offset Programs. Kollmuss, A., M. Lazarus, C. Lee, M. LeFranc and C. Polycarp (2010). Handbook of carbon offset programs: trading systems, funds, protocols and standards. London: Earthscan. ISBN 9781844079292.

Coverage includes offset programs across the full swath of applications including mandatory and voluntary systems, government regulated and private markets, carbon offset funds, and accounting and reporting protocols such as the WBCSD/WRI GHG Protocol and ISO 14064. Learning from the successes and failures of these programs will be essential to crafting effective climate policy.

This is an essential reference for all regulators, policy makers, business leaders and NGOs concerned with the design and operation of GHG offset programs world-wide.

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SEI authors

Anja Kollmuss
Michael Lazarus
Michael Lazarus

Senior Scientist Emeritus

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Carrie M. Lee
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