Offsetting Strategies

• Compensation of residual emissions by a company or service through the purchase of carbon credits in regulated and voluntary markets.

• The company can offset its residual carbon emissions (i.e., emissions that cannot be avoided) by purchasing credits generated by projects that carry out carbon compensation activities.

Insetting Strategies

• Originating from projects that reduce carbon emissions, or from intervention and CO₂ sequestration projects within a company’s own value chain.

• Development of interventions inside the value chain as a way to mitigate the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions generated by the company.

• This methodology seeks actions that go beyond reducing emissions — it also aims to positively impact communities, landscapes, and ecosystems.

Combined Use of Both Strategies

Offsetting and insetting strategies can be implemented together:

• Offsetting focuses on compensating emissions that cannot be avoided.

• Insetting focuses on reducing, avoiding, and capturing carbon emitted into the atmosphere.