DMRC’s Line-4 earns carbon-neutral certification
"This milestone underlines the DMRC's commitment to reducing its carbon footprint and addressing climate change," a DMRC spokesperson said on Sunday.
India’s leading private aviation company, JetSetGo on Tuesday announced its ambitious target to develop a carbon management programme to make flight operations carbon neutral for all its flights by 2024.
The programme being implemented in partnership with Auroville Consulting, a provider of ecological and socially-responsible consultancy services, would have a two-pronged approach; first to reduce emissions by implementing innovative technological solutions, and second by neutralizing the remaining emission through an active carbon offset strategy.
The company has set up a carbon offsetting programme, the partnership would assess emissions from ongoing and future operations to quantify the amount of credits that need to be purchased from pre-selected socially and environmentally-beneficial carbon offset projects, the company stated in a press statement issued here on Tuesday.
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The option to offset will then be offered to clients who want to voluntarily offset carbon emissions associated with their journey with any shortfall being met by JetSetGo.
As a first step, the assessment will include the company’s direct carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from flight operations. The company then plans to cover indirect and non-CO2 emissions in due course along with other key emissions categories.
According to the Ministry of Civil Aviation confirming, there has been an increase of 63.5% CO2 emissions by Indian airlines between 2012-19. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) have forecasted a seven-fold increase in emissions by 2050.
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