Lower Carbon Travel – Top Tips

1. Pack Efficiently: Fly with as little baggage as possible. This is most important on short haul flights, where research indicates that reduced baggage has the most impact on reducing per passenger emissions.
2. Public Transport: Use public transport as much as possible in your destination. Using intercity trains as opposed to air travel for shorter journeys saves carbon. 
3. Remember the lights: Always turn the lights off when leaving your hotel room. Power usage creates emissions. 
4. Local Produce: Buy locally produced goods. They will have travelled less and thus created less emissions than imported products. 
5. Car Hire: When hiring a car choose lower emissions models and hybrids where possible, to reduce your emissions. 
6. Departure: In the UK travel to the airport using train or bus connections where possible. 
7. Your House: When you go on holiday make sure that all non essential power usage is turned off. 
8. Air Conditioning: Use air conditioning sparingly and turn off when leaving your room. 
9. Laundry: Make full use of hotel sheet and towel reuse programmes. Excess laundry activity creates emissions and wastes water. 
10. Renewable Energy: Where available choose hotels that are eco friendly and use renewable energy. 
11. Offset your travel emissions by creating a corresponding emissions saving at home: Each household is estimated to emit 6 tonnes of CO2 each year through energy use, and the driver of a medium sized car will emit over 2.5 tons a year. A reduction in these emissions through better energy efficiency at home and better driving behaviour and a reduction in short journeys could offset your holiday emissions.