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  • noun Plural form of offset.

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Examples

  • Moreover, Nkem-Abonta said, over the medium to long term offsets only benefitted the purchasing country if their use was limited and restricted to a very small number of countries.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2004

  • There is some $465 million in offsets, plus the possibility of considerably more, up to about $800 million, in offsets or industrial benefits.

    Meeting the Threat at Home and Abroad 1977

  • Abu Dhabi, the capital city that holds almost all the U.A.E.'s oil reserves, qualified for UN credits known as offsets, designed to encourage richer countries to finance carbon-reductions in developing nations.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2010

  • According to its reading of the amendments, Evolution Markets says US companies buying term offsets would have to provide "financial assurances" that liabilities will be covered after expiration.

    EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed info@ecologicalinternet.org (Carbon Positive: none 2009

  • It appears that, like tCERs, US term offsets would last five years but could be re-issued upon a successful re-verification of the project, that is, when it can be shown that the trees are still standing and the emissions reductions from carbon sequestration are still intact.

    EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed info@ecologicalinternet.org (Carbon Positive: none 2009

  • By including long term offsets, the climate bill is also perpetuating dirty coal plants for longer than even the market would have allowed.

    Center for American Progress Action Fund 2009

  • The nonprofit group Friends of the Earth warns that U.S. legislation could encourage fraud of the type encountered in Europe by allowing widespread use of "offsets" -- which are credits that can be purchased to negate a carbon footprint.

    Combating Complexities Of Carbon Fraud 2010

  • The legislation also would let companies avoid cutting their own emissions by purchasing "offsets" -- activities such as protecting rainforests in Brazil -- that are deemed climate-friendly.

    House Passes Climate Bill 2009

  • The legislation also would let companies avoid cutting their own emissions by purchasing "offsets" -- activities such as protecting rainforests in Brazil -- that are deemed climate-friendly.

    House Passes Climate Bill 2009

  • Senior administration officials told reporters there were no plans at the White House to seek "offsets" -- or spending cuts elsewhere in the budget -- to ease the strain of the new war budget request on the Treasury.

    August 2003 ~ Angry Bear 2003

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