{"id":1951,"date":"2009-02-05T15:33:24","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T07:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=1951"},"modified":"2009-02-03T15:35:17","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T07:35:17","slug":"fly-carbon-neutral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/environment\/fly-carbon-neutral-1951","title":{"rendered":"Fly Carbon Neutral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently booked a domestic flight in Australia and was offered the following during the checkout portion:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Help reduce the impact of carbon emissions on the environment by offsetting your share of flight emissions of 0.292 tonnes (C02-e) with just a small contribution.<\/p>\n<p>Your contribution will go towards greenhouse gas abatement approved by the Australian Government's Greenhouse FriendlyTM accreditation program. Contributions are not refundable.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It was about US$2 for the 1-hour trip. It would be interesting to know how they calculate the offset for this <em>Fly Carbon Neutral<\/em> program.<\/p>\n<p>I just wonder whether this is a \"pay to reduce guilt\" situation. Does it really help to reduce carbon emissions?<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here's one way of reducing carbon output with a voluntary user pays system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[125],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}