Would a community use taxpayer dollars to purchase offsets to become carbon neutral? In BC, most municipalities have signed on to provincial Climate Action Charter. Members of the Charter have committed to carbon neutrality by 2012, but what this really means has not be clarified yet and the province will soon have to communicate what makes a community carbon neutral. So far the carbon neutral option, despite some developmental faults, has been the best way to form a basis of carbon accounting and making real reductions. But will this be acceptable once these commnities realize they are supporting carbon reduction projects outside of their communities? When is comes down to using taxes to pay for carbon neutrality, there will be a wide range of responses and some communities who will not participate for a variety of reasons. The lingering questions of offsetting (offset quality, location, etc) will be the biggest roadblock, or you can be like Eden Mills, Ontario, and go for nuetral without offsets: http://www.goingcarbonneutral.ca/
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