An automobile insurer from Shanghai has become the first Chinese company to become carbon neutral by purchasing credits in the country's fledgling voluntary carbon trading market.
Tianping Auto Insurance paid Rmb277,699 ($40,627) on Wednesday for 8,026 tons of carbon credits accumulated by commuters during last year's Beijing Olympics. They were auctioned through the Beijing Environment Exchange.
The deal signals the growing potential for carbon trading in China, which is the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases but so far does not have a domestic carbon market.
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