Carbon credits We’re serious about our responsibility to tackle global climate change. That’s why Honeyguide is offsetting its CO2 emissions by buying ‘carbon credits’ for every holiday flight. Air travel makes up only a small fraction of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions at present, but that fraction is growing.  As an environmentally minded company, we aim to keep our carbon emissions as low as possible, but we all realise it’s hard to cut our pollution entirely. That’s why we’ve chosen Carbon Clear to offset our carbon emissions from holiday flights. For more information, please visit www.carbon-clear.com. Carbon Clear invests in projects that remove carbon dioxide from the air by replacing polluting technologies with clean ones, and planting native trees. We have worked with Carbon Clear to calculate the exact amount of carbon dioxide we emit, and Carbon Clear has identified projects that prevent the same amount of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere. We will offset our emissions by investing in two projects in the developing world: community tree planting in India, where trees provide local people with food and medicines as well as soaking up carbon dioxide energy efficient brick-making in Nicaragua For more information on these projects click here. Carbon offsets are relatively new and these offer good value for money. As offsets evolve over the coming years we hope in the long run to move towards carbon offsets in a country that Honeyguide visits. Carbon Clear applies the following principles to all its projects: They must be efficient. Funds should not be diverted to unnecessary bureaucratic overheads, waste or middlemen. They must have additional, long-term benefits to the communities that undertake them. These range from employment opportunities to the protection of endangered species of plants and animals. They should follow the spirit of the Kyoto agreement. Projects must make pollution reductions over and above their normal level, and it is only this additional benefit to the environment that Carbon Clear supports. The cost of carbon offsets for Honeyguide will be a little over £4 for every holiday in Europe – applied as an average for simplicity – and £26 for our South Africa holiday. This is included in the holiday price, as are carbon offsets for leaders’ flights. This is a small step in tackling such a big problem, but we hope by establishing this principle that more holiday businesses will follow. Hope rather than expect: the simple steps of printing our brochure on recycled paper and including a conservation contribution in the holiday price were applied from Honeyguide’s first holidays in 1991 (the donations now routed thought the Honeyguide Wildlife Charitable Trust) remain highly unusual. www.carbon-clear.com