I've stopped flying to conferences for climate change reasons

Re:I've stopped flying to conferences for climate change rea... by mockingbirdy on Monday June 03, 2019 @12:13PM (#20084811)

There are many calculators that offer a way to donate trees:

https://co2.myclimate.org/en/flight_calculators/new

https://www.clevel.co.uk/flight-carbon-calculator/

https://trees.org/carboncalculator/

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Re:I've stopped flying to conferences for climate change rea... by hokkos on Monday June 03, 2019 @01:13PM (#20085548)

Those are fake feel good offset, it price a Paris-NYC round trip with 2.2 tCO2eq at 52€, but the only serious future project of durable carbon capture that I know price it at 600$ the tCO2eq, this would be a 1320$ offset.

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Re:I've stopped flying to conferences for climate change rea... by criddell on Monday June 03, 2019 @01:49PM (#20085966)

The last time I read about this, CO2 sequestration was $100-$200 per metric ton:

https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2018/06/team-provides-firs...

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Re:I've stopped flying to conferences for climate change rea... by hokkos on Monday June 03, 2019 @02:26PM (#20086454)

Their future target price, not the current one.

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