Carbon Offsetting
We’re fortunate that we have contributors scattered across the world who are able to report in situ, but some travel is inevitable in order to cover the stories and often by plane, one of the biggest carbon emitters. As well as offsetting all the paper used for each issue through the Carbon Balance Paper scheme, in partnership with the World Land Trust, we are now offsetting our contributors’ flights with ClimateCare.
Here’s the calculation for this issue:
Songlines, April 2020 #156 Carbon Offsets
| Flight From | To | Feature | Carbon produced |
| London | Dakar, Senegal | Introducing | 1.31 tonnes of CO2 |
| London | Budapest, Hungary | Live Review | 0.46 tonnes of CO2 |
| London | Oslo, Norway | Live Review | 0.38 tonnes of CO2 |
| London | Beijing, China | Postcard | 2.44 tonnes of CO2 |
| London | Dublin, Ireland | Dispatch | 0.14 tonnes of CO2 |
Total: £35.48 (4.73 tonnes of CO2)
Previous Issues:
Songlines, March 2020 #155 Carbon Offsets
| Flight From | To | Feature | Carbon produced |
| London | Novi Sad, Serbia | Simon Says | 0.53 tonnes of CO2 |
| London | Sado, Japan | Kodo feature | 2.87 tonnes of CO2 |
| London | Tampere, Finland | Indigenous Languages feature | 0.57 tonnes of CO2 |
| London | Kathmandu, Nepal | Postcard | 2.20 tonnes of CO2 |
| London | Almaty, Kazakhstan | Festival Profile | 1.68 tonnes of CO2 |
| London | Maputo, Mozambique | Dispatch | 2.75 tonnes of CO2 |
Total: £79.50 (10.6 tonnes of CO2)
Songlines, Jan/Feb 2020 #154 Carbon Offsets
| Flight From | To | Feature | Carbon produced |
| London | Tampere, Finland | WOMEX round-up | 0.57 tonnes of CO2 |
| London | Belo Horizonte, Brazil | Dispatch | 2.69 tonnes of CO2 |
| London | Labrador, Canada | Postcard | 1.17 tonnes of CO2 |
| London | Bratislava, Slovakia | My Instrument | 0.41 tonnes of CO2 |
| London | Carthage, Tunisia | Live Review | 0.57 tonnes of CO2 |
| London | Gliwice, Poland | Live Review | 0.43 tonnes of CO2 |
| London | Oslo, Norway | Live Review | 0.38 tonnes of CO2 |
Total: £46.65 (6.22 tonnes of CO2)
