Did you know that the biggest environmental impact of your holiday will be the flight? Aeroplanes travel in the sensitive upper atmosphere and release a cocktail of greenhouse gas emissions which are a major contributor to global warming.
For example, a return flight to Istanbul will produce the following amounts of CO2 per person :
- from London 550 kgs
- from New York 2290 kgs
- from Tokyo 2580 kgs
- from Sydney 4760 kgs
Each tree planted ‘offsets’ your environmental impact by ‘breathing’ in about 730 kg CO2 emissions over its lifetime of 100 years.
TEMA is the Turkish foundation for combating soil erosion, for reforestration and the protection of natural habitats. For each group of our visitors we plant a tree with TEMA. Although this might be good enough for a single visitor flying from London, obviously this might not be good enough for a couple flying from Sydney. We'd like to encourage you to offset the rest of the CO2 at TEMA's web site.
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