Travelling in the UK with Climate in Mind

TIES encourages you to reduce your carbon emissions by minimizing energy use, utilizing alternative transportation, and choosing low-impact activities. There will always be unavoidable carbon footprint of your travel. Contribute to a credible carbon offsetting program to support conservation, renewable energy, and other energy saving projects.

For those travelling to and within the UK, here are some useful information on measuring the carbon footprint of your travel, and how to travel consciously as you select air travel, local transportation and lodging options:

“There is great variation in the figures provided by flight emissions calculators. One of the better ones is ChooseClimate’s emissions calculator, which enables you to specify the type of ticket, model of plane and occupancy rate. It displays its findings as kilograms of fuel used, kilograms of CO2 generated, and the total warming effect. The latter takes into account other emissions from aviation, such as nitrogen oxides and water vapour, and the fact that CO2 emitted at high altitude has an enhanced warming effect.

Calculators for other types of travel are beginning to become available. CO2balance.com enables you to calculate emissions from some rail and car journeys. Meanwhile, transportdirect.info provides a means to compare the emissions made by a small car, large car, train, coach and plane for a set distance.”

(Source: The Guardian, “Carbon copies? Not all ‘carbon calculators’ are equal. Carolyn Fry looks at the best ones online“)