Certainly not, but we are realistic to the fact that we can't all move to electric en masse. Visitors to our site, for instance, will already own a fossil fuel burning car which they are unlikely to change, so we provide them with a choice to make a real difference. We certainly don't expect our service to be used as an excuse to increase one's use of fossil fuels. To the contrary, in fact, we see ourselves as a reminder or 'nudge' to think green.
There are many different mechanisms to carbon offset with varying degrees of legitimacy. We only use those products provided by the UN or Gold Standard. Both of these providers use Clean Development Mechanism projects which ensure that the offsets are additional, meaning that the CO2 reduction is not compensating for another producer of carbon, but is a true reduction to the overall amount of CO2 produced globally.
All CDM projects have been developed under rules agreed at intergovernmental level by Parties (national governments) to the Kyoto Protocol and with international supervision by the CDM Executive Board, supported by the UNFCCC secretariat. The additionality of projects is assessed based on tools and methodologies developed under the leadership of a Methodologies Panel composed by international experts on the topic, and evaluated by third-party validators (called Designated Operational Entities of the CDM), the UNFCCC secretariat and the CDM Executive Board.
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