Anybody knows how a business class seat (plus with free neighbor seat) can be marketed as “carbon neutral” if
a. it’s flying with the same flight as the others, that are not tagged as such
b. it’s taking two places
Aside from “marketing bullshit”?
by cityhunt1979
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It’s legal to emit any quantity of CO2 and call yourself carbon neutral. You only need to buy carbon emission certificates from companies actively trying to reduce CO2.
That’s a big part of Teslas (the car brand) business model. They get carbon emission certificates from the state for each electric car sold and they can sell those certificates to anyone who needs them.
That flight might have reduced the number of ICE cars on the road.
Green electric power works the same way. Iceland is producing a lot of carbon neutral electric power via geothermal energy. Those power plants get certificates. Utilities in continental Europe buy those certificates and sell carbon neutral electric power locally. Carbon neutral electric power generated by coal power plants … Look up the power mix for Luxembourg and take note of the ~60% import from Germany.
Carbon neutral, IIRC, usually means you pay an extra fee and the company ensures that the equivalent energy need of your flight will be provided by renewables somewhere. Is this a marketing bullsht? Probably yes. I also don’t know how it works if you book two seats. But it’s a thing.