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 Travel Facts

Airplane

Flights

Each year, 4.3 billion people take a flight. 

The estimated CO2 emissions from these

flights is 880 billion kgs. (Pre Covid-19)

As an industry, tourism accounts for 8% of annual global CO2 emissions, most of which is attributed to transport.

If everyone plants a tree each time they board a plane, air

travel would be CO2 negative within 16 years!

Hotel sign

Accommodation

A hotel stay produces 5 times more CO2 than a typical home.

Hotels facilities like swimming pools, gyms, spas, restaurants, bars, air conditioning, heating, laundry service, consume vast amounts of energy & therefore produce great amounts of CO2.

A hotel room produces approximately 30kg of CO2 per night, this varies according to location & function. 

Therefore, 1 tree would help offset a 5 night stay.

Cruise ship

Cruises

In 2019 there were 30 million passengers on cruise ships, up 6% from the previous year.

In 2019, all cruises together produced 23 billion kgs of CO2.

A passenger produces approximately 820 kgs of CO2 per cruise, therefore we estimate and recommend to plant 5 trees per cruise passenger.

Motor Vehicules

train

Trains

Travelling 1,000 miles by train produces 41 kgs per passenger

Rail transport is the most environment-friendly way to travel. The only methods more environmentally friendly than trains are walking and cycling.

A typical train line can carry 50,000 people per hour. Compare this with a motorway, which can move only 2,500 people per hour.

Friends in an open top car

Motor Vehicles

Passenger cars and light-duty trucks, including sport utility vehicles, pickup trucks, and minivans account for over half of the emissions from the transportation sector.

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If you travel 1,000 miles or 1,600 kilometres by car alone, you would emit 275 kgs of CO2 whereas 4 people making the same trip, in the same car would emit only 69 kilos each.

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source: IPCC - the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change

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