With the current environmental and sustainable trend, many companies are looking at carbon credits as method to sell away there inability to cut their own carbon-dioxide emissions.

An article in yesterday's Wall Street Journal looks at recent action by the UN to tighten requirements and "Some Carbon-Credit Projects Find a Tougher Road to Approval:"

These days, the U.N. is rejecting projects at a greater rate. The issue centers on whether projects, ranging from sugar plants to wind farms, would have been built anyway without financial assistance from selling credits. If so, credit buyers wouldn't be fulfilling their obligation to reduce greenhouse-gas outputs. The debate is especially relevant as the U.S. mulls a carbon-trading system.

Buying carbon credits is a lot easier (and cheaper) to do then buying more efficient and “greener” printing presses and equipment. This article drives home the point that we need to vigilant in what we do to make our companies sustainable.