For example, carbon offset vendors offer direct purchase of carbon offsets, often also offering other services such as designating a carbon offset project to support or measuring a purchaser’s carbon footprint. In 2016, about $191.3 million of carbon offsets were purchased in the voluntary market, representing about 63.4 million metric tons of CO2e. In 2018 and 2019 the voluntary carbon market transacted 98 and 104 million metric tons of CO2e respectively.
Aren’t those $191.3M of carbon offsets almost all being purchased by businesses that do directly CO2-emitting things? That’s my impression, though I don’t have any actual numbers to back it up or anything. The equivalent of the inhumane-egg-production offsets being proposed here would be carbon offsets bought by consumers.
(Also, although 100M tons of CO2-equivalent sounds like a lot, that’s about 1⁄500 of total annual emissions.)
Yes, people would likely do bulk offsets and not buy them day by day. At something like 4$ per dozen eggs few single meals would amount to $5.50.
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Aren’t those $191.3M of carbon offsets almost all being purchased by businesses that do directly CO2-emitting things? That’s my impression, though I don’t have any actual numbers to back it up or anything. The equivalent of the inhumane-egg-production offsets being proposed here would be carbon offsets bought by consumers.
(Also, although 100M tons of CO2-equivalent sounds like a lot, that’s about 1⁄500 of total annual emissions.)