Airline company EasyJet has announced that it will offset all CO2 emissions with immediate effect from its flights. It is the first major airline to do so, the British company said when presenting the annual results.
According to reports to the NOS, EasyJet wants to reduce emissions by planting forests and by emitting less CO2. The company is investing money in developing aircraft that fly on sustainable fuel and electricity, so that aviation will ultimately become CO2-free.
EasyJet is dependent on new technologies for this. It wants to develop it together with aircraft manufacturer Airbus. Until then, Easy Jet will use the most fuel-efficient aircraft, including new Airbus A320 aircraft, and will limit the number of passengers per flight, reducing the weight per flight.
Since 2000, EasyJet has reduced CO2 emissions per kilometer per passenger by more than a third. By 2022, emissions should be another ten percent lower than three years ago.
Limit footprint
"We realize that offsetting is a temporary measure, but we now want to do something about CO2 emissions to limit our ecological footprint in the short term," said CEO Johan Lundgren at the presentation.
The cost of the compensation is estimated at EUR 29,3 million until the end of the current fiscal year, September 30, 2020. The company's total sales were EUR 7,5 billion, an increase of 8,3 percent.
