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Carbon Credits
April 27, 2008

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Reporter: Melissa McLean

Everyone is doing it.

From being married at a Green Wedding to being buried at a Carbon Neutral Funeral and everything in between, carbon offsets seem to offer the opportunity to have your green cake and eat it too.

And well in advance of the promised emissions trading scheme, consumers are voluntarily lapping it up.

In a crowded market place, going green is a way of standing out from the crowd. Marketers have embraced terms like 'carbon neutral', 'green' and offset and now the ACCC is busy trying to rein them in.

This week Sunday looks at this new market, who's running it and how much is it going to cost consumers.

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