Carbon offset market boom

In slow economic times, business is booming in the carbon-offset market. Perhaps it’s because the American Clean Energy and Security Act requires greenhouse gas emissions to be reduced 17% by 2020, and 83% by 2050.

Voluntary carbon-offset programs have traditionally been available to major companies, corporations and businesses. Essentially, they’re allowed to exceed emission targets if they buy credits from an “overperforming” company. Now, Joe Consumer can get in the game as well.

My Emission Exchange is a free carbon-offset marketplace where members tally their carbon footprint and actually sell carbon credits to bidding companies, all of which is pocketed by the member. Calculate your current carbon footprint on their handy Express Calculator.

 
It doesn’t really matter what it is right now; your goal is to reduce it by 10% annually. If you can do that, you earn carbon credits which can be sold at market value. What better way to encourage people to consider the effect their actions has on the environment, than to pay them to correct them? Governments have been slow to realize this, so it took a group of intrepid entrepreneurs to take things into their own hands.

Best of all, the benefits go directly to those doing their best to effect change.