{"id":7643,"date":"2015-11-27T10:59:16","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T09:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/?p=7643"},"modified":"2015-11-29T15:31:24","modified_gmt":"2015-11-29T14:31:24","slug":"just-us11-make-entire-holiday-carbon-free-researchers-say-sciencealert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2015\/11\/just-us11-make-entire-holiday-carbon-free-researchers-say-sciencealert\/","title":{"rendered":"Just US$11 could make your entire holiday carbon-free, researchers say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7645\" src=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sandy-footprints.jpg\" alt=\"footprints in sand\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sandy-footprints.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sandy-footprints-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sandy-footprints-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sandy-footprints-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/>Our vacations could be effectively decarbonised and rendered environmentally harmless \u2013 from an emissions perspective, at least \u2013 if the tourism sector makes substantial investments in carbon offsetting and emissions abatement initiatives from now until 2050, according to a new study.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tourism sector has pledged to reduce its CO2 emissions [by] 50 percent by 2035,\u201c <a href=\"https:\/\/uwaterloo.ca\/news\/news\/decarbonizing-tourism-would-you-pay-us11-carbon-free-holiday\" rel=\"nofollow\">said Daniel Scott<\/a>, an environmental management researcher from the University of Waterloo in Canada. \u201dOur study demonstrates this is achievable, but will require determined action and significant investment \u2013 starting at just under US$1 billion annually [in the] 2020s.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That might sound like a lot, but the relative cost at the outset of the scheme would be less than 0.1 percent of the estimated global tourism economy in 2020, which could be easily shouldered by travellers if the burden was added like a surcharge to individual journeys.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read the full article<\/strong>: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/just-us-11-could-make-your-entire-holiday-carbon-free-researchers-say\">Just US$11 could make your entire holiday carbon-free, researchers say &#8211; 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