Compensation of carbon emissions derived by travels is no news, but I was wondering if we should adopt, in our sustainability policy we are building step by step, this kind of commitment:
when we have to travel, because remote collaboration is not possible, we consider a certain amount of the project budget to be allocated to compensation.
This commitment can be achieved through many ways: besides avoiding polluting behaviours, one of my favourite and compliant to what discussed in this post, is planting trees. I know at least a couple of Italian companies that offer this service: LifeGate and Treedom.
I think this compensation scheme makes a lot of sense, even in the long run.
Because: I don’t see people switching to sail boats en masse anytime soon, which makes flying the only practical option at least for overseas travel. And biogas, electric or hydrogen powered airplanes are also decades away, means there will be emissions from flying. So compensation it is.
And I like trees (and ). And our clients would pay for our trees. And they can hardly argue against compensation budget positions. So yes, I really like the idea
Great, thank you @matthias! Also, discussing yesterday with @noemi and @marina, I think I’ll write to Treedom to suggest them to add a specific feature with the possibility of calculating travels emissions and a suggestion to what kind of tree will compensate that particular travel. I will let you know!
). And our clients would pay for our trees. And they can hardly argue against compensation budget positions. So yes, I really like the idea 