# Carbon Credit Offset with CARB, Developer Preserves 4,400 acres, SC

- Link: https://greenlivingguy.com/2015/01/carb-and-carbon-offset-developer-preserves-4400-acres-in-south-carolina/
- Published: 2015-01-18T21:10:19-05:00
- Author: greenlivingguy

## Green Assets Inc

Let’s go carbon credit offset. For Green Assets, Inc., is most notably a leading
forest carbon offset developer. For they have been awarded carbon offset credits.
All for its conservation project covering over 4,400 acres of land. It’s also owned
by Brookgreen Gardens in South Carolina. It’s getting credits also from The California
Air Resources Board (ARB). They have seem to have a compliance offset program for
US forests.

### First South Carolina Carbon Credits

It was issued South Carolina’s first carbon credits to the project that met specific
requirements. So it represents verified greenhouse gas emission reductions/migration
enhancements. Carbon credits feature as a component of national and international
attempts to mitigate greenhouse gases. One carbon credit equates to one ton of carbon
dioxide removed from the atmosphere. The initial issuance of credits by ARB amounts
to 162,551 carbon credits. Thereby offsetting more than 34,000 cars’ emissions over
a year.

Green Assets looks forward to helping other landowners around the US. Especially
to recognize the economic and environmental benefits carbon programs offer.

### Original PR:

WILMINGTON, N.C., Jan. 15, 2015 /[PRNewswire](https://web.archive.org/web/20181004091754/https://prnmedia.prnewswire.com/s?action=doLogin)/—
Green Assets, Inc., [a leading forest carbon offset developer](https://www.green-assets.com/),
has [California Air Resources Board (ARB) ](https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/homepage)compliance….

In addition and this initial issuance of credits. It’s from the [Air Resources Board](https://greenlivingguy.com/2008/04/technology-cars-vehicle-california-cuts-quotas-for-evs/).
More noteworthy: it also amounts to 162,551 carbon credits. Using the EPA’s Greenhouse
Gas Equivalencies [Calculator](https://www.epa.gov/energy). For these credits offset
the emissions of more than 34,000 cars over a year’s time.

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