Each individual coal plant, for example, can choose to meet the applicable emission rate limit (set in pounds of CO2 per megawatt - hour of electricity generated) by reducing its own emission rate or by
acquiring emission reduction credits.
And
emissions that remain must be «offset» by the purchase of carbon -
reduction credits from the Pacific Carbon Trust, a new Crown corporation created specifically to
acquire and sell a portfolio of «made-in-B.C.»