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New kiosks at SFO Sell carbon offsets
The single market for carbon offsets is growing and the San Francisco Airport (SFO) just do your part to make carbon offsets available to the ordinary traveler with new kiosks Climate Passport.
First, What are carbon offsets?
Carbon offsets are monetary units that go towards funding projects to offset environmental damage from carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Basically, buying a carbon offset represents an effort to compensate damage caused by one metric ton of carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases. The money could go to projects like wind farms hydro, landfill methane destruction, or reforestation projects.
It has been common for large corporations and governments to purchase carbon offsets in efforts to comply with the caps on the amount of carbon dioxide they are allowed to emit. However, there is also a market small individual carbon offsets which SFO is trying to take advantage. SFO is the first airport to provide these carbon offset kiosks voluntary purchase carbon offsets to offset the carbon dioxide their part in a flight emits.
How to buy a carbon compensate the SFO.
To buy carbon offsets to the SFO, you can visit one of three of its Climate Passport kiosk, enter your flight information and allow the kiosk to calculate the pounds of carbon dioxide are responsible for your particular flight. So if you decide you want to finance a project to compensate the damage caused by the flight, you can purchase the amount of carbon offsets at $ 13.50 per ton to cover its share. For example, if you have a round trip from SFO to New York JFK, which will cost $ 23.42 to cover their part, little more than the SFO airport parking cheap.
Where is your money?
Carbon offsets purchased at newspaper stands Passport Weather to finance local projects SFO today, a reforestation project in Mendocino County and a project to supply bio-diesel fuel in San Francisco.
Who can say what the future holds for the individual market for carbon offsets, but at least it is the SFO kiosks available and convenient for travelers they want to do their part to undo the carbon footprint created during his travels.
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