| 单词 | carbon offset |
| 释义 | carbon offset also carbon-offset Word forms: carbon offsets, carbon offsetting, carbon offset 1. uncountable noun Carbon offset is the same as carbon offsetting. He says that the very basis of carbon-offset is flawed. They were the first airline to have a voluntary carbon offset programme. [NOUN noun] 2. countable noun A carbon offset is something that is done to compensate for carbon emissions, for example a payment to an organization that plants trees. The saleswoman had never heard of a carbon offset. They use carbon offsets, from supporting Amazonian rainforest to recycled biogas energy projects. 3. adjective If something such as a journey is carbon offset, something has been done to compensate for the emission of carbon that it involves. Naturally all her trips abroad are carbon offset. 4. verb If you carbon offset, or carbon offset something, you do something to compensate for the emission of carbon. I always try to carbon-offset my travel. [VERB noun] To be truly green, a celebrity must not just carbon-offset or advocate for the cause, they must relinquish things. [VERB] |
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