Green trading encompasses all forms of environmental financial trading, including carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide (acid rain), nitrogen oxide (ozone), renewable energy credits, and energy efficiency (negawatts).
Green Trading claims to accelerate change to a cleaner environment by using market-based incentives whose application is global.
[1] Many current projects to advance green technology are recipients of funding generated through the voluntary carbon offset market in the United States.
Though currently not required to do so, many companies are seeking ways to clean up their environmental impact.
In November 2008, in a unique partnership initiated by Verus Carbon Neutral, 17 businesses of Atlanta's Virginia Highland came together to establish themselves as the first carbon-neutral zone in the United States.