Your flights will usually represent the largest portion of your trip’s carbon footprint; consider using airlines that have invested in advanced technology and equipment to already lessen the impact of your flights.
This National Geographic piece lists the most fuel-efficient airlines in the word. Additionally, consider how you can shift your plans to include closer destinations, or accommodations using renewable energy sources.
Calculate the carbon footprint of your trip to Papua New Guinea (PNG) and the Pacific. Use an online free carbon calculator to input the details of your trip and calculate a number to represent the carbon impact of your trip.
Choose a quality carbon offset programme. Once you have a figure representing the carbon footprint of your trip, select an organization with funding quality and certified carbon reduction programmes around the world that is transparent and your money goes right down to the intended purpose.
Organizations such as Carbon Footprint, https://carbonfootprints.com and MyClimate, https://myclimate.org do not have any carbon reduction programmes in PNG and the Pacific.
Not even the Gold Standard (https://goldstandard.org) has any direct project in PNG to benefit the indigenous carbon owners.
Many of the most raveled destinations in the world — reefs, beaches, and rainforests in PNG and the Pacific — are already stressed by climate change.
With a commitment to lowering your personal carbon footprint and offsetting trips when travelling to PNG and the Pacific, you can be a part of the climate change solutions. Travellers must join the global efforts to keep this planet livable.
If you are travelling to PNG and the Pacific or are planning to or you already are a regular traveller with repeated trips to PNG and the Pacific, then know the following fascinating facts and share with your friends, relatives, colleagues or neighbors.
With over 60% of the country’s surface area covered by forests, PNG is home to the third largest area of intact tropical forests in the world. A large portion of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions come from the use of land and forests.
PNG’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are mostly from land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF). PNG’s CO2 emissions from LULUCF in 2007 were 146.5 – 268.6 million tCO2.
It is the second largest island in the world, with over 29 million hectares of forested land which are customarily owned by the indigenous people – the Government has no legal control over the land, forests and carbon ownership.
The customary landowners (CLOs) in PNG are custodians of the 97% of the land mass in the territory of sovereign nation of PNG which come under a customary landownership recognized by the law in the country, which is a total area of 462,840km2 (an area 25% larger than the size of Japan).
Some of these production forests areas are comprised of high quality tropical hardwoods and other forest products and are major export revenue source for PNG.
Yet none of the globally funded projects has ever benefited the customary carbon owners in PNG. Not even the Gold Standard’s projects or Carbon Footprint and MyClimate has ever set foot in PNG shores to donate to customary landowners against logging, land use clearing and to cover the cost of managing the standing forests.
The Indigenous Rights of the PNG customarily landowners are protected under the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People and Indigenous Rights is now part of the negotiating text on REDD+ at the UNFCCC COPs.
Travellers to PNG and the Pacific will pay for their trip’s carbon footprints directly to the customary forest carbon owners to preserve the forests against logging, land use clearing and to cover the cost of managing the standing forests. – Via Garamut News.
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| Part of the tropical rainforest in the highlands of PNG. Image: Jacob Wani. |
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