This is one I’ve been thinking about for a while and trying to avoid… I’ve racked up >100,000 air miles with BA[] so far this year and on top of that numerous internal US and short haul european flights; all of which have been on business. Guess it needs to be #1 on my todo list.
I going to try to do the following by the end of this year:
- flying less – I know the rest of ‘crossoak’ would vote for this one
- offset all my flights from now on – I managed to offset some stuff at the beginning of the year and then lapsed :-(
- offset previous flights I’ve made – I thinking of doing this by offsetting two flights for every one I make (or better, offset two for everyone I *don’t make)
- getting the company to agree to let people expense offsetting – so the business budget gets the carbon impact of business travel at least at some level
And this one by the end of Feb 2006:
- getting the company to automatically offset all flights
If anyone’s had any experience of getting employers to buy into this, the tips would be appreciated.
Also, has anyone thought or read anywhere about using air miles to pay for offsetting flight emissions? I haven’t really thought it through, but one advantage looks like it would take the miles out of the system which might otherwise be used on more flights.
[*] BA has recently started promoting offsetting with Climate Care on on-line bookings (http://www.britishairways.com/travel/climateimpact/public/en_gb)
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