How can I offset my carbon footprint? I have to make 3 flights this year.

1 - from London (UK) to Amsterdam in Holland and back again (3-day trip)
2 - from London (UK) to Lodz in Poland and back again (3-day trip)
3 - from London (UK) to Hyderabad in India and back again (4-weeks trip)

How do I work out my total carbon footprint for these 3 journeys and what can I do to neutralise it? When I look online I get a different estimate from every website and I know I can buy %26#039;credits%26#039; to offset the footprint but how do I know whether these companies are for real and what they will spend my money on?

Any ideas? Thanks


as for the calculators, there is a great deal of variability between them, heres a study i was recently sent;
http://www.climatebiz.com/news/2008/07/3... 13% 2 Votes 13% 2 Votes

Well you can stop walking about for a start, leaving all them oily footprints behind you - yeuk! 0% 0 Votes

IF you are so worried, do not make the flights! People worry too much about this thing. Carbon Credits are a scam. Al Gore makes frequent flights and do you think he worries? 6% 1 Vote

you would be better off on these trip to pull over and plant a tree or better yet, throw some flower seeds out the car window while driving. global warming is a money maken scam! 0% 0 Votes

The term %26quot;Carbon footprint%26quot; is a total nonsense 6% 1 Vote

well you could go to 1 then 2 then 3 and then gohome to save money and help your footprint! ^^ 0% 0 Votes

hi 0% 0 Votes

Easy...you%26#039;re flying, so you won%26#039;t leave footprints!

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You%26#039;ll need to find out whether what they are spending it on would have happened without you paying the offsetting fee because most carbon offsetting companies just give the money to things that would have occurred regardless of whether or not carbon offsetting happened (say giving a dollar to something that receives $100 in subsides from the government).

The schemes that actually will make a difference of course turn out to cost a lot more, to the point at which it isn%26#039;t a %26#039;painless%26#039; sacrifice for the environment.

Don%26#039;t worry about CO2 from aviation all that much though, it%26#039;s a minor source and there%26#039;s not really much that we can do to about it that isn%26#039;t already being done (though London-Amsterdam might be doable by high speed train). 13% 2 Votes