To balance out eco/social footprints just by compensating against them with offsetting credits is not a primary solution - but it helps to speed up the world's transformation towards more sustainablity. To reduce footprints along the value chain internally in the corporate must be the main goal. It is a must to have a strategic insetting plan & aims to report against regularly. But we all know, Rome wasn't built in a day and transformation of larger businesses take time. To bridge that gap offsetting can help so accelerate that on a global scale. E.g. if my plan to get rid of using plastic in my value chain will take about 10 years, why not supporting plastic waste collection projects around the world meanwhile with buying their Impact Credits. That will at least help a bit to stop platic pollution on the "waste end" while the corporate is working to stop the pollution on the "emitting end". Both must go hand-in-hand: insetting as a basis, offsetting as a tool for mitigation meanwhile.