A number of stakeholders in the RGGI process have suggested that the region allow owners of power plants to purchase “offsets” (reductions in global warming emissions made at other facilities outside the region or at facilities other than the fossil fuel power plants regulated under the program) to ease compliance with the program or to help achieve further reductions. Supporters of this approach claim that allowing the use of offsets will reduce the cost of global warming emission reductions while achieving similar environmental benefits and broadening the reach of the program to other sectors of the economy.