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What’s the CO2 on your PV flight?
February 12, 2007 | Tags: News, Opinion | Leave a Comment
With global warming so present in the news and in our minds, I’m feeling uncomfortable about how much flying I do. Getting back and forth from the US and Canada to Mexico and beyond creates an awful lot of CO2 emissions. Here are some examples of what a non-stop flight to Puerto Vallarta will generate (figures from an online calculator):
USA Departures:
Los Angeles: 0.6 tonnes of CO2
San Francisco:Â 0.8 tonnes of CO2
Portland, Oregon:Â 0.9 tonnes of CO2
Chicago: 0.9 tonnes of CO2
Minneapolis/St Paul: 0.9 tonnes of CO2
Detroit: 0.7 tonnes of CO2
New York: 0.8 tonnes of CO2
Boston: 0.9 tonnes of CO2
Canada Departures:
Vancouver 0.8 tonnes of CO2
Edmonton 0.8 tonnes of CO2
Toronto 0.8 tonnes of CO2
Montreal 0.9 tonnes of CO2
Europe Departures:
London 2.0 tonnes of CO2
Amsterdam 2.1 tonnes of CO2
I recently wrote an article entitled Going Neutral on my personal website which gives an outline of the issue and what you can do about it including purchasing offsets to make your travel carbon neutral.
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