AiDash, a company using satellites and image processing software to help companies manage geographically dispersed assets in the face of environmental issues, announced a new carbon management tool, according to a press release.

The company claims that "innovation in carbon measurement and management … will help organizations unlock the untapped environmental value of corporate land holdings and mitigate the risks of escalating carbon credit pricing."

The key to the claim is carbon offsets. A complex business that does take its share of knocks, the idea is that in order to lower humankind's carbon footprint and maybe mitigate some of the likely oncoming disastrous impact of climate change, companies and people agree to a trade. Some entities will find ways to significantly reduce the amount of carbon they produce, or even lock down existing carbon to lower the collective footprint. Other entities can then pay for credits—environmental indulgences that forgive them of their climate sins.