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Help fight global warming
Each time you fly or drive, you contribute to global warming by releasing CO2 and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
The Guardian, The Observer and Guardian Unlimited have joined forces with Climate Care to enable you to pay to balance out your travel emissions. Your money will be used to fund projects that absorb, reduce or avoid an equivalent amount of greenhouse gases elsewhere. This is called an 'offset'.
Guardian Newspapers Ltd offsets all of its business air travel booked through its central travel agent, as well as all journalists' flights undertaken for Guardian Travel, Observer Escape and Guardian Unlimited Travel, and aims to extend this to cover staff flights booked through its other suppliers in 2006. All reader flight offers through our marketing department now offer the option to offset emissions.
While we recognise the need to reduce unneccessary air and car travel first and foremost, we acknowledge that some journeys are unavoidable and personal travel can also be highly desirable. Carbon-offsetting provides a positive step to help you repair your impact on the climate. |
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Where will my money go?
Your money will contribute to Climate Care projects that cut greenhouse gases, including: |
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Climate Care is running a programme to install low-energy lighting in low-income households in South Africa. The lamps will reduce demand for electricity, which is generated in coal-fired power stations. It will save householders money and reduce emissions. |
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 | | Clean Cooking in Honduras
In Tegucigalpa, cooking is done on inefficient open fires in people's homes. Kitchen walls are often blackened by smoke and more wood is used than the local area can sustain. Climate Care is funding a local organisation to extend its efficient stoves programme. These are clean burning and use 60% less fuel. |
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 | | Greener stoves in Punjabi schools
In the Punjab schools cook their food on expensive LPG, a fossil fuel. Local engineer Ramesh Nibhoria's "combined cookstove" is specially designed to run on briquettes made from crop waste. These cut CO2 emissions and school fuel bills while giving new income to farmers. Climate Care funds Ramesh to increase his production, while the schools pay for the stoves over 18 months on a hire-purchase basis. |
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