TITLE

Corporate carbon offset program

PUB. DATE

March 2007

SOURCE

Travel Weekly Australia;3/16/2007, Issue 41, p8

SOURCE TYPE

Trade Publication

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

The article reports on the partnership between Expedia Corporate Travel company and TerraPass company, a retailer of greenhouse gas, to launch an offset carbon program to its customers in Australia. It was noted that Expedia is the first global travel agency to implement such initiative. The program enables environmentally-conscious businesses to both calculate the amount of carbon dioxide from their employees' business travel and purchase the corresponding amount of offsets to balance it.

ACCESSION #

25061175

Tags: EXPEDIA Inc.;  TERRAPASS Inc.;  PARTNERSHIP (Business);  CARBON dioxide;  BUSINESS travel

 

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