Travel light, turn off electricity such as hotel lights, use public transport such as trains or buses if possible instead of planes, buy local products — these are just some of the tips for a Lower Carbon Travel as discussed in the website of BizClass travel market. It’s nice to know that this site, which is dedicated to first class and business class flights, not only provides custom search and price comparison, but has also included an environmental awareness campaign. BizClass is an online travel search engine where you can compare travel deals and discounts and find business class flights that would meet your needs. Just provide your travel details (destination and date), and BizClass returns a list of corresponding airlines and travel agents. Clicking on your preferred rates will transport you to the travel agent’s website where you purchase the tickets if you are satisfied with the package.
BizClass also provides information on the environmental impact of the travel details you provided during the search. For instance, a trip from Manila to Seville (with a total of 24038 km. of travel) produces 2.64 tons of carbon dioxide per person with a cost of emission of Php 2141.22 (and that even includes VAT!). Interesting huh? Anyway, reading its Carbon Policy Statement is enlightening and gave me information about the effects of travel to the environment specifically with carbon emissions that contributes to global warming. Awareness about how we affect our environment is a start since we cannot simply stop taking flights to other destinations. With resolve, we can actually offset travel emissions by energy saving measures at home since household energy usage produces approximately 6 tons of carbon dioxide annually. How about you? Are you aware of CO2 emissions brought about by your own air travel activities? Any tips you know that would offset travel emissions?
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