The truth about airplane carbon offsetting
, despite speaking out about environmental issues.
"As well as reducing emissions, we need already to be planting large numbers of trees and restoring wetlands and peatbogs.""So the challenge for easyJet is, where do you offset when everything is happening anyway? It's like paying a nun not to drink. "The aim will be to reduce the amount of carbon offsetting we do as new technologies emerge which reduce carbon emissions."
Roe calls the recent carbon offsetting moves of the airlines"unhelpful" and says they're"sending the wrong message to people." Friends of the Earth's Mike Childs admits that a"tiny percentage" of carbon offsetting projects may be good, but warns that,"If you have five small projects in Nepal and half the world saying they want to use that one, they won't have capacity. Large-scale offsetting projects are no answer to what needs to happen."Responsible Travel wants a "green flying duty" to be added to UK air ticket prices.
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