In an attempt to give its nordic hotel guests and airline passengers with a better conscience, will travel and the air carrier TUI from 1. may klimakompensere for emissions of carbon dioxide from their hotels and flights.
Specifically the compensation by TUI make an investment in a project to prevent or reduce the emission of carbon dioxide. The compensation shall be made with a quantity corresponding to it, the traveler emits about to travel with TUI’s aircraft or stay at the company’s hotels.
The investment is going to go through the project, South Pole Group. Examples include projects that generate energy from solar, wind, water and biogas in countries such as India, Thailand, and Vietnam.
TUI will not disclose exactly how big an investment it is. But TUI’s Danish press officer Mikkel Hansen promises that it does not mean higher prices for tickets or nights at the TUI.
– We would like to offer the danes a good holiday tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. We cannot, if we are not careful the globe, he says.
the Measure will be important in 2000 flights and over 200 hotels.
The projects, such as TUI’s investments go, it will be realized with the help of the South Pole. A framework for these projects is that they must meet the requirements of the UN Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).
It will be possible for customers of the TUI to see when they are ordering, whether there will be klimakompenseret for the journey.
TUI has previously made an effort to be klimaorganisationers preferred carrier.
the british newspaper The Guardian wrote in december, TUI’s aircraft was in the top of the German ngo Atmosfairs annual measurement of how efficient companies are with their fuel.
For comparison, the SAS number 78 out of the top 125 companies were ranked.
