Globe and Mail: It’s a new year, and with it comes new responsibilities. In August of 2008, the Western Climate Initiative will require B.C. businesses to begin reducing their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to 33 per cent below 2005 levels. If these greenhouse gases can’t be reduced, companies will be required to offset their pollution via a new form of environmental currency, the carbon credit. Devised by the Kyoto Protocol, carbon credits are meant to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fight …