the airínea LATAM lanceó your program so that passengers can compensate for the carbon footprint generated by their trips.
from this 18 of May, the passengers of LATAM Airlines Ecuador tenderán the possibility of compensating the carbon footprint generated by their trips toéinmates thanks to the new program “1+1: Compensate to conserve”, one invites usón to support the protectionón of the environment and ecosystems collaboratively, since for each ton that the client decides to compensate, The Latin group compensateá a más, duplicating theí The positive impact for the environment and ecosystems.
Compensate carbon footprint with Latam
A través of the sectionón “My trips” on LATAM.com, passengers canán enter the data on their flights to know the amount of tons of C02 generated and will haveán the possibility of paying to compensate for the calculated impact.
Contribute itóNo payment made by passengers and Latam irá for the benefit of the CO2BIO project, that supports conservationón y the restaurantón of más de 500 mil hectáFlood savannas of the OrinoquíColombian, whose importance lies in its altíSima Co2 capture capacity. in addition, support conservationón of biodiversity being the home of más de 2 A thousand species, between them, 7 bird species in vulnerability, 5 Species of day butterflies that are in danger, además of other endangered speciesítico. THE PROJECT -QUE TO 2030 expects to capture más de 11 million tons of CO2- spaghettién allows to generate economic benefitsóMycos and social to Más de 700 families living in that sector.
“The magnitude of the problemáECTICS OF CLIM CHANGEáTico requires everyone's effort, And in Latam we are convinced that it is collaborative work that allow usá generate greater impact. This is why, that we launched our program 1 + 1, a través of which passengers couldán compensate for the carbon footprint they emit when traveling. As part of our commitment, Latam matchá The quantity compensated by the client, duplicating theí The impact that is generated for the benefit of the ecosystems and biodiversity of Southérica”, indicó Juan Jose Tohá, Director of Corporate Affairs and Sustainability of Latam Airlines Group.
“We are very committed to care and preservationóN Environment, And we have been strengthening with each of the actions and programs we launched. We have how
organizationón goals to fulfill and on that path the attentionón from the problemáTICA OF CHANGE
climáTico makes a lot of sense. Más aún, When there is a task in which we must all collaborate. AHí Our program is born 1 + 1, with which passengers couldán compensate for the carbon footprint they emit when traveling; And we from Latam, We will match the quantity compensated by the client, duplicating theí The impact generated for the benefit of the ecosystems and biodiversity of Southérica”, I knowñaló Mónica Fistrovic, CEO of LATAM Airlines Ecuador.
A collaborative and accessible program
The program allows passengers to compensate the CO2 emissions issued on their flights. For instance, the international route máS Long of the LATAM Group, From Sao Paulo to Frankfurt issues approximately 0,8 Tons of CO2 per passenger on a round trip flight. Compensating the emissions of this route can be around 8 dólares per person.
In this línea, The LATAM group already hadíto arranged in the first instance the possibility to its corporate clients, to compensate for the carbon footprint of their trips and only during the AñO 2022, was achievedó compensate más de 50.000 tons of CO2, In the same modality 1+1.
The new program, It is part of the actions framed within the sustainability strategy of the LATAM group, which has among its goals reduce and compensate for the equivalent of 50% of sun emissionséGroup A Sticics 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality to 2050.
