(CSA: Toronto) -- CSA Standards, a leading standards-based solutions organization, has launched the CSA Registered Carbon Neutral Program. The program provides organizations and building owners with a credible, transparent process by which to declare their carbon neutrality and receive recognition in the program registry, as well as authorized use of the new program label.

“The authorized use of the CSA Registered Carbon Neutral Label signifies that the organization has voluntarily determined its carbon footprint and offset GHG emissions,” says Bonnie Rose, president of CSA Standards. “CSA Registered Carbon Neutral Program recognition will help provide additional credibility and confidence to an organization’s environmental marketing claims.”

Carbon neutrality is the achievement of zero net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from a specified organization or building. This is achieved by measuring GHG emissions and then (for all emissions identified) offsetting them through the retirement of an equivalent amount of qualifying verified emissions reductions or removals. Carbon neutral is not the same as having zero emissions.

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