The Offset Quality Initiative is a collaborative and consensus-based voluntary effort to pool the collective experience, resources and expertise of its member organizations regarding greenhouse gas reduction projects, or offsets.
The OQI will promote a policy agenda focused on the effective incorporation of greenhouse gas offsets and other reduction mechanisms into emerging state, regional and national climate policy.
The OQI believes that market-based solutions to environmental problems are a necessary and integral part of addressing global climate change.
The OQI has four main Objectives:
- To educate stakeholders on the opportunities and challenges presented by the integration of greenhouse gas offsets into regulatory and voluntary climate change mitigation strategies.
- To develop and promote consensus policy positions for the optimal integration and treatment of greenhouse gas offsets in current and future state, regional and national climate change policy.
- To serve as a source of credible information on greenhouse gas offsets based on the diverse collective knowledge and experience of the Offset Quality Initiative members.
- To promote innovation in the greenhouse gas offset market and to provide information and guidance on best practices and policies.
