Investing in carbon offsets: Guidelines for universities

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[The ACUPCC has put together an excellent set of guidelines on the issues surrounidng carbon offsest. For those universities and ICT departments lookimg to buy/sell offsets I recommend that they get their IT staff trained in the basics at the non-for-profit GHG Institute which offers eleaning courses on GHG management and certification . Thanks to Tom Baumann for this pointer—BSA]

The GHG institute
www.ghginstitute.org

ACUPCC Guidelines
http://www.presidentsclimatecommitment.org/documents/CarbonOffsetsGuidelines_v1.0.pdf

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