San Francisco mayor orders development of Local Carbon Offset program; first in US

In California, the city of San Francisco has mandated the development of a Local Carbon Offset Program that will be the first in the United States. The program will establish a fund that will invest in carbon-offset projects in the city. A novel feature of the program is that carbon offset investment will be in the same city as the emissions are generated.

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