To carbon offset means to reduce the carbon released in one place with carbon reductions or capture in another.
Carbon neutrality can be achieved by setting the entire emissions of a project with an equal amount of reductions or capture elsewhere.
Carbon offsetting can involve the purchase of a credit from another project and is part of the world of carbon trading.
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