Compensate for the CO² emission of your trip to Switzerland

How you can compensate

The Alps are suffering

The Swiss Alps we all love and wish to visit are suffering heavily from global warming. The glaciers are melting. Drought, floods and other severe weather occur more frequent in Switzerland and the rest of the world nowadays. The number of white peaks in summer is decreasing.

Glaciologists predict that almost all glaciers will disappear over the next decades if global warming continues. The time has come to be a responsible traveler, as traveling contributes to the problem. You don't have to stay at home. Come and enjoy the Alps, but care for the environment and compensate for the CO² emission of your trip.

Be a responsible traveler: donate to Myclimate

Will you be traveling by plane or by car? Make a small payment to compensate for the CO² emission of those trips. It's only a fraction of your holiday budget. You'll make a difference! Here are the ways to do it:

• Go to co2.myclimate.org/en/offset_further_emissions, calculate the emission of your trip and choose from the various ways to compensate.
• Alternatively, your airline or car rental company may offer CO² offsetting.

We are well aware that transportation is not the only source of CO² emission. However, transport is directly related to traveling and easy to compensate for. Do you want do to more? Please look here.

What will Myclimate do with my money?

What is Myclimate?

Myclimate is a foundation that emerged in 2002 from a project by students and professors at the Zurich university for technology and natural sciences (ETH). Their goal is to protect the climate (and therefore mankind), by creating a society with a high standard of living but very low greenhouse gas emissions.

One of their principles is "Do your best, offset the rest": make your CO² footprint as small as possible, and compensate for the remaining emission. For us as travelers, that translates into: choose an eco-friendly mode of transport (e.g. train) and compensate for the emission of trips you can't avoid (e.g. by car and plane).

More information: www.myclimate.org/information/faq

Example projects

If you donate to Myclimate, your money will be used to offset your CO² emission. They have many projects around the world to do so. A few examples:

• Reforestation: we simply need more trees!
• Energy efficiency: saving energy reduces CO² emissions too.
• Implement renewable energy: the transition from fossil to clean sources of energy (hydro power, wind, solar, biomass, heat pumps) is inevitable.
• Education: people can make the right choices if they know about the problems and the solutions.

More information: www.myclimate.org/information/about-myclimate/use-of-funds/

Example donations

• Driving from Amsterdam to Zurich and back causes 0.56 tonnes of CO². A donation of CHF 16 makes your trip eco-friendly.
• A flight from London to Zurich and back causes 0.37 tonnes of CO². A donation of CHF 11 makes your trip eco-friendly;
• A flight from New York to Zurich and back causes 2 tonnes of CO². A donation of CHF 58 makes your trip eco-friendly;
• A flight from Singapore to Zurich and back causes 3.4 tonnes of CO². A donation of CHF 97 makes your trip eco-friendly.

Calculate the amount for your trip: co2.myclimate.org/en/offset_further_emissions