Carbon credits provide business with a verified method to balance unavoidable carbon footprint by directly supporting projects that are proven to reduce carbon emissions. One Carbon Offset/Credit represents the reduction of greenhouse gases equal to one metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e). The United Nations’ Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) developed a carbon credit proposal to reduce worldwide carbon emissions in a 1997 agreement known as the Kyoto Protocol. The Kyoto Protocol was signed in Kyoto, Japan, in 1997 by 192 industrialized countries. Countries that ratify the Kyoto Protocol are assigned a maximum limit of CO2 emission levels. Emitting more than the assigned limit will result in a penalty for the violating country in the form of lower emissions limit for the following period. However, if a country wants to emit more greenhouse gases than its allowed limit (without penalty), then it may participate in carbon trading using an Emissions Reduction Purchase Agreement (ERPA).