Skip to main content

Verifiable Offsetting

Definition

Verifiable offsetting ensures that environmental credits, such as carbon offsets, are genuinely linked to measurable and confirmed reductions in emissions. This process involves stringent monitoring, reporting, and verification protocols, often enhanced by blockchain technology, to confirm that claimed environmental benefits are real, additional, and permanent. It aims to prevent fraud and double-counting in carbon markets, thereby strengthening the credibility of climate action initiatives. The goal is to provide trust in environmental asset transactions.