Offset Your Carbon Travel
Your travel has an environmental impact, contributing to the release of the greenhouse gases that drive climate change. Ideally, changes in our behaviors and consumption and the development of new technologies will reduce or eliminate those emissions. In the meantime, there are concrete steps that you can take to minimize the impacts of your travel.
One such way to reduce the carbon footprint of your personal travel is through carbon offsets. Projects that remove carbon from the atmosphere or prevent emissions from arising in the first place are called carbon offsets. Markets and demand currently drive the price of those offsets, thus, investment in offsets serves to increase the capacity of the market over time. By purchasing offsets through CC's carbon offset fund, you are funding these projects. Currently, there is no economic mechanism accounting for the social costs of carbon, thus buying carbon offsets is a key step towards addressing a needed market shift. The cost to offset your travel is minimal compared to the cost of the trip itself.
At Colorado College, your air and ground travel offsets go toward a landfill gas destruction project in Larimer County in Northern Colorado, which prevents greenhouse gases that were previously allowed to enter the atmosphere from contributing to climate change. Travel offsets are vital considering that a long haul flight emits as much carbon as many people do in a whole year. Thank you for joining us in acting to support our values and goals. To learn more details about our carbon offsets, please visit this page.
Invest In your travel
Instructions
1. Enter your travel details into the space provided.
2. Click the 'Calculate' button. A grey box will appear below with the distance traveled, a number of how much metric tons of CO2e was generated, an equivalent, and the cost.
4. Click the 'Offset This Trip' button at the bottom of the grey box to invest in your travel. It will open another page where you can pay to offset your trip.
5. This fund goes towards the purchasing of offsets for Colorado College. Learn more below!
Travel Offset Calculator