Offsetting means funding an emissions reduction elsewhere (reforestation, clean cooking) to compensate for your own emissions. CCS treats emissions from an identified industrial site: capture and storage physically occur at the facility that emitted. A CCS project can generate carbon credits through Article 6 of the Paris Agreement or voluntary markets to fund additional investment costs. The quality of these credits depends on retention rate, permanence and MMV traceability. Premium DAC credits (Climeworks, Heirloom) currently sell for between $500 and $1,500/tCO₂.
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