Offset Your Carbon Travel

Your travel has an environmental impact, contributing to the release of the greenhouse gases that drive climate change. 在理想的情况下, changes in our behaviors and consumption and the development of new technologies will reduce or eliminate those emissions. In the meantime, there are concrete steps that you can take to minimize the impacts of your travel.

One such way to reduce the 车bon footprint of your personal travel is through 车bon offsets. Projects that remove 车bon from the atmosphere or prevent emissions from arising in the first place are called 车bon offsets. Markets and demand currently drive the price of those offsets, 因此, investment in offsets serves to increase the capacity of the market over time. By purchasing offsets through CC's 车bon offset fund, you are funding these projects. 目前, there is no economic mechanism accounting for the social costs of 车bon, 因此 buying 车bon offsets is a key step towards addressing a needed market shift. The cost to offset your travel is minimal compared to the cost of the trip itself.

在赌博正规的十大网站, your 空气 and ground travel offsets go toward a landfill gas destruction project in Larimer County in Northern Colorado, which prevents greenhouse gases that were previously allowed to enter the atmosphere from contributing to climate change. Travel offsets are vital considering that a long haul flight emits as much 车bon as many people do in a whole year. Thank you for joining us in acting to support our values and goals. To learn more details about our 车bon offsets, please 访问此页面.

投资你的旅行

指令

1. Enter your travel details into the space provided.

2. Click the '计算' button. A grey box will appear below with the distance traveled, a number of how much metric tons of CO2e was generated, 一个等价的, 还有成本.

4. Click the 'Offset This Trip' button at the bottom of the grey box to invest in your travel. It will open another page where you can pay to offset your trip.

5. This fund goes towards the purchasing of offsets for 科罗拉多大学. 在下面了解更多!


 

Travel Offset Calculator

 

 

报告问题 - 最后更新: 05/10/2022

快速问答&A

If you would like to know more, check out our 车bon neutral 常见问题解答 that goes in-depth about offsets.

Q: How does travel impact 车bon emissions?

A: 目前, the United States has the second highest percentage of global 车bon emissions. According to the New York Times, 空气 travel accounts for 2.5% of national global 车bon dioxide emissions. Each individual's 车bon footprint is adding to America's 车bon emissions. 作为个人, we do have the power to reduce the impact of 空气 travel emissions, reducing the progression of climate change.

Q: 什么是偏移量?

A: An offset is an investment in a project that reduces or eliminates GHG emissions that have already been released in order to cancel out their long lasting effects. There are many different types of projects: renewable energy, 能源效率, 林业, methane capture/avoidance, and other projects such as 车bon capture and storage. Offsets are fully verified and must meet multiple criteria and pass rigorous peer review and verification standards to ensure that they have real impacts.

Q: Where does CC offset our emissions?

A: 科罗拉多大学 buys 车bon offsets though the Larimer County Landfill. The Larimer County Landfill Capture Project has co-benefits that go beyond just reducing emissions; it has opened doors for future 车bon related markets, has reduced 空气 pollution by adding renewable energy to the grid, and supports the local community of Larimer County. These 车bon offsets reduce the global warming potential of the gases released from the landfill along with the 车bon that would go into the atmosphere. The reduction occurs in Larimer County Landfill because landfills release greenhouse gases including methane and potassium peroxide; if these gases are combusted in a generator, the methane is destroyed and the gases become 车bon dioxide and water. Methane is a 28 times more potent greenhouse gas than 车bon dioxide, therefore breaking down methane into 车bon dioxide reduces its global warming potential from 28 to 1. These offsets therefore decrease the amount and potency of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere.