Calculate and neutralize your travel emissions
When you travel by plane you are contributing to significant emissions of climate change causing carbon dioxide.
Therefore the best solution is to try to avoid travel where ever possible.Ask yourself whether your business meeting could be replaced by talking over the phone or video conferencing. Or if you are going on vacation, think about visiting locations that are closer to home.
Sometimes, of course, travel can't be avoided. The WWF Travel Helper therefore helps you make the right choices, so you can find the travel option with the lowest carbon footprint and also offset the environmental cost of the journey.
By offsetting with Gold Standard carbon credits, you will be investing in projects that reduce the equivalent amount of greenhouse gas emitted into the atmosphere by your trip.
What are Gold Standard credits?
The Gold Standard is an independently audited, globally applicable best practice methodology for project development that delivers high quality carbon credits of premium value along with sustainable development co-benefits associated with the projects. By purchasing Gold Standard credits through Climate Friendly you can be sure that one credit bought offsets one tonne of greenhouse gas emissions, as Climate Friendly's internal processes are audited annually by a third party and credits are retired on the public Gold Standard registry each year.
The Gold Standard was created in 2003 by a small group of non-governmental organisations, one of which is WWF.
Today, the Gold Standard label receives worldwide recognition and is officially supported by 51 charities, NGOs and environmental and development organisations.
