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What is Carbon Offsets

Chapter 12
Handbook of Research on Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities in Sustainable Architecture
A carbon offset is a reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases made in order to compensate for emissions made elsewhere. Offsets are measured in tons of carbon dioxide-equivalent.
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Energy Transition Landscape: Landscape Approach for Pollution-Generating Large-Scale Industries
Ezhil Prabhu M (Dr. M. G. R. Educational and Research Institute, Chennai, India) and Kumareswari Rajendran (Dr. M. G. R. Educational and Research Institute, Chennai, India)
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 35
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-5119-9.ch012
Abstract
The research is motivated by the need to develop energy transition landscapes – landscapes that are well adapted to renewable energy and to implement energy conscious landscape planning in large-scale industrial sites. The fossil fuel economy affects climate change, loss of biodiversity, environmental pollution, social inequity, and unhealthy living conditions. These effects, combined with growing concerns about energy security drive the transition to renewable. The aim of the research is to address the environmental degradation that is happening due to the impact of industrialization. As a case industrial scenario, Tamilnadu state has been taken and explained. This research is about sustainable development and not only about renewable energy provision. The integrative concept of “sustainable energy landscapes” is the arena where landscape architecture and other disciplines meet to pursue global sustainability goals.
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