GreenSeat

Why make your travel greener with GreenSeat?

• Emissions caused by travelling contribute to global warming.
• By choosing a mode of transportation that uses less fossil fuel, you are reducing the CO₂ emissions caused by the trip. Through CO₂ offsetting, you ensure that the greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere do not increase even further.
• By offsetting the emissions of your journey you are giving households in developing countries access to sustainable energy. The projects that you are making possible achieve two things simultaneously; they reduce CO₂ emissions and improve the standard of living for families in developing countries.

Greener travel with GreenSeat
We believe that green travel, which avoids negative consequences for the climate, is the way ahead. You go on holiday for the experience, for adventure, to meet new people or for a well-earned rest. Naturally, nobody wants their trip to have a negative effect on the climate. Fortunately, a range of technical advances are taking place with respect to sustainable modes of transportation, but it will be years before they are fully developed. So if we want our travel to be greener now, we must also act now. GreenSeat makes this possible. It’s easy: first, check your options for a greener mode of transportation (walking from London to New York is not an option, whereas taking the train from London to Paris is!), then offset for unavoidable emissions. By offsetting the emissions of your journey you are giving households in developing countries access to sustainable energy.

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How travel contributes to the climate problem
All means of transportation require energy, which usually comes from burning fossil fuels. Motors running on fossil fuels emit greenhouse gases. The exhaust gases, for example from cars, planes and buses, contribute to the climate problem.

The climate problem is caused by the enhanced greenhouse effect: the warming of the earth due to greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Did you know that the greenhouse effect is in essence a natural process? Greenhouse gases trap heat in the atmosphere, and life on earth would be impossible without that warmth. But, due to deforestation and our use of fossil fuels, the level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is now too high. The extra greenhouse gases cause too much heat is trapped, which has a negative effect on our climate. This is what we call the climate problem. Among the effects that can already be seen, and which will be more evident in the future, are:

•    The polar ice caps are melting due to increasing temperatures, which in turn means higher sea levels and, eventually, flooding.
•    Severe weather conditions such as hurricanes, snowstorms and tornados become more common, and monsoons become heavier.
•    Health risks for people, due for example to unexpected heat waves, contagious diseases and less available drinking water.
•    Natural ecosystems such as coral reefs, glaciers and mangroves and the associated biodiversity are being damaged and in some cases even lost.

The climate problem is not the only issue we face. Our current energy sources such as oil and gas will simply run out, as more countries are becoming more developed and moved towards the same patterns of energy use as western nations. So there’s an urgent need to use our current sources of energy more sparingly, while developing and implementing alternatives.

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