The system would allow countries that have exceeded their emissions reductions to sell that credit to other countries; credit which would then be used in the name of meeting their own climate targets — known as an offset.
“There was this idea at one point in not-so-distant history, where Canada’s plan was to meet the majority of its emission-reduction abroad.
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