TITLE

ORGANIC WASTE DIGESTION PROTOCOL FOR CARBON OFFSETS

PUB. DATE
August 2009
SOURCE
BioCycle;Aug2009, Vol. 50 Issue 8, p12
SOURCE TYPE
Trade Publication
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
The article focuses on the Organic Waste Digestion (OWD) Project Reporting Protocol released by the Climate Action Reserve (CAR), a national carbon offsets program in the U.S. The protocol offers guidance to report reductions of greenhouse gas emissions associated with diverting organic waste and wastewater. Moreover, it says that CAR also issued Climate Reserve Tonnes, a carbon offset credits generated from the project.
ACCESSION #
44018232

Tags: CARBON offsetting;  ENVIRONMENTAL impact analysis;  GREENHOUSE gas mitigation;  ORGANIC wastes;  WASTEWATER treatment;  INDUSTRIAL wastes

 

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