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Cryptic Carbon Compensation Chronicles
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Structured program to regulate or reduce pollutants
  • 2. Capacity to maintain ecological balance long term
  • 3. Additional benefit derived from emission reduction projects
  • 4. Market system for buying and selling pollution privileges
  • 6. Earth’s stock of natural resources yielding ecosystem services
  • 7. Establish a forest where none existed before
  • 8. Tradable certificates representing avoided emissions
  • 10. Renewing woodlands to absorb anthropogenic emissions
  • 11. Carbon-rich soil amendment made by pyrolysis of biomass
  • 12. Status achieved by balancing emitted and absorbed CO2
  • 17. UN initiative rewarding forest conservation efforts
Down
  • 5. Aggregate greenhouse gas emissions attributable to an activity
  • 9. Gaseous envelope trapping heat, linked to climate change
  • 13. Geologic or biological capturing of atmospheric carbon
  • 14. Land use, land-use change and forestry acronym (contextual term)
  • 15. Microbe producing potent greenhouse gas in anaerobic conditions
  • 16. Platform where emission permits and offsets are exchanged
  • 18. Emission capping mechanism with tradable allowances

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