CO2 offset for driving 20,000 km
With your contribution, children in schools all over the world can plant trees.
€150.00
The calculation
20,000 km of driving equals 6,0 ton carbon to offset, which will require around 300 growing trees a year.
By the end of 2009, the price of one ton of CO2 is around €12.40 (price are evaluated and changed every 6-12 months).
FEE's Global Forest Fund
Climate change is affected by most types of transportation (flights, cars, boats, trains, etc). In order to protect the climate, it is of course best to minimize the effects though travelling less or through carefully choosing the means of transportation. This is however not easy in our globalised world.
As FEE is an organisation working for promoting sustainable development, we have decided to establish a general compensation of the CO2 emission from all our international flight travels.
Knowing the distance you are going to travel, the CO2 compensation cost can be calculated using the formula as indicated in the method above.
The funding derived from CO2 compensation will be entered into FEE's Global Forest Fund administrated by the International Learning about Forests (LEAF) Coordination.
Schools involved in the environmental education programmes of FEE (LEAF, Eco-Schools and YRE) can through their national coordinator apply for funding from the Fund for planting of trees and other activities in connection with the tree planting and maintenance. Environmental education activities must be combined with the efforts. Schools from countries outside the FEE network can also apply for funding from the CO2 Fund and a national NGO must apply on behalf of the school. Documents with application form and application procedure can be downloaded from the FEE website.
90% of the income is used for tree planting and other CO2 compensation efforts combined with the environmental education activities. Information about the use of FEE's Global Forest Fund will be produced continuously and can be downloaded from the FEE website.
For more information: www.fee-international.org/en/Menu/Global+Forest+Fund.
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