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Heard on the radio that BP have launched today a scheme to offset your CO2 emmissions with a joint project with TargetNeutral.

You register, work out your usage, pay money to a non profit organiastion who lauch projects (abroad) to offset the carbon. In addition if you use a nectar card once registered, BP will also pay some money for every litre you buy from them (ahh! thats where they get the pay off.)

visit here for details:

http://www.bp.com/sectiongenericarticle ... Id=7021085

and here to work out your carbon:

http://www.targetneutral.com

What's peoples opinion on this?????

Cheezy & Co.

I saw something similar on the 10 o'clock news.

British Airways asking for a voluntary carbon surcharge on their transatlantic tickets of about £48, that would then be re-invested in the developing world to minimise their carbon emissions by an equal amount.

Has the world gone chuffing mad?

Why can't they spend the £48 in the Western world and reduce our carbon emissions, does it go further in developing countries and yet still leave them a healthy profit???

Can you really believe that a big corporation like BA (or BP) will use the whole £48 to help reduce third world CO2 emissions, or will they just use it to pay their massive aviation fuel costs.

A good way to reduce their CO2 emissions is to boycott their airline and send £48 a year to your favourite humanitarian charity.

What does anyone else think?



Ken

I'm all for the immediate cessation of ALL flights barring emergency or compassionate ones!
Typical blessed fudging of the issue - it's still shovelling vast quantities of gunk into the atmosphere unnecessarily!

The TargetNeutral site says: "All the money raised... goes towards positive environmental projects that offset the harm CO2 emissions produce, like three biomass energy plants, a wind farm in India and a livestock operations in Mexico. "

I don't get it. How does a biomass energy plant neutralise the carbon emitted by a car that runs on petrol? How can a windfarm make driving carbon neutral? What's livestock got to do with it?

It also says: "It is easy to participate, and involves a cash contribution to the programme, usually around £20 per year..."

That's great isn't it? Pay 5½ pence per day and be guilt free, knowing that you have been exempt from harming the environment. I bet people are gonna sign up for that by the truckload so that they can use their cars even more, and yet be beyond criticism.

I suppose these are the modern versions of indulgencies. Cheap ones, at that.