Accounting for Carbon Offsets | Roston | SFI Seminar
Channel: Stanford ENERGY
Date: 2024-01-04

In this Stanford Sustainable Finance Initiative (SFI) Monthly Seminar on November 16, 2023, Marc Roston, Senior Research Scholar at SFI, presented an accounting framework based on five core principles. The first two define what can and cannot be counted as an offset and what may or may not be traded. The remaining principles set out basic accounting guidelines for offsets. Together they provide the foundation for a well-functioning market that accelerates innovation and deployment of improved offsetting technologies, leading to atmospheric decarbonization.