Carbon offset

Carbon offset, Carbon pricing, Energy, Environment, Transportation

(Assistant Professor, School of Law and Government, Dublin City University)/ /Leave a comment

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) is currently considering the implementation of a basket of measures to decarbonize international shipping. These are to be in line with the climate mitigation targets included in the Initial IMO GHG Strategy — including reducing GHG emissions from shipping by at least 50 percent by 2050 over 2008 levels —…

Carbon offset, CSR, Environment

(Full Professor of Financial and Tax Law, Complutense University of Madrid Visiting Professor of Transnational Taxation, Northwestern University)/ /Leave a comment

By María Amparo Grau Ruiz[1] Why taxation of carbon offset credits matters? A carbon offset is basically a removal or reduction in greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions, or an increase in carbon storage, that is used to compensate for emissions that occur elsewhere (i.e., another company which may be in another sector, area or even jurisdiction)[2]….