Travelers bothered by their flight’s pollution can pay to reduce it elsewhere. Do offsets work?

Travelers bothered by their flight’s pollution can pay to reduce it elsewhere. Do offsets work?

Are they worth it? Let’s explore. A roundtrip flight from New York to Los Angeles emits more than 1,300 pounds (about 614 kilograms) of planet-warming carbon dioxide per passenger, according to an emissions calculator from the International Civil Aviation Organization. That’s about the amount of po...

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