Blue Swan Daily – 31st July, 2019
Some US airlines have been offering passengers opportunities to buy carbon offsets for more than a decade; however, in 2019 only four of the country’s carriers continue to offer those programs – Alaska Airlines, Delta Air Lines, JetBlue Airways and United Airlines.
The success of those carbon offset efforts is tough to measure and there appears to be growing skepticism about their overall effectiveness, with mounting arguments cautioning that emissions from certain offset projects need to be kept in check.
Delta and JetBlue have had carbon offset programs in place since 2007 and 2008 respectively, and they were later joined by Alaska and United. Simply put, carbon offsets programs allow passengers to make purchases that support sustainability projects in order to neutralize the carbon emissions of their flights. Read more…
