We don’t need to stop travelling to be sustainable. By choosing longer stays over quick getaways, moving slower, and making conscious choices, every trip can leave a lighter footprint. Greentripper supports travellers and travel businesses with tools, guidance, and workshops to make responsible travel both simple and rewarding.
Let’s give back to nature
By supporting these projects, you contribute to environmental, social and economic benefits in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Reduce and contribute for the unavoidable
How can you give back?
Giving back starts with behavioural change. By adjusting your travel habits and making conscious choices to reduce your footprint. That’s the most powerful step you can take. For the emissions that remain unavoidable, you can contribute to certified climate projects and meaningful environmental initiatives.
Reduce your travel impact
Certified climate projects
These projects directly address climate change by, avoiding or capturing carbon emissions. They include renewable energy, forest conservation, reforestation, and carbon sequestration initiatives - helping to give back in line with the impact of your travel and activities.
Environmental initiative
Not all environmental actions lead to immediate emission reductions, but they are still crucial. These initiatives focus on restoring biodiversity, protecting ecosystems, and building climate resilience ensuring a healthier planet for future generations.
Make a difference
Our projects
Our projects meet the highest international standards and are carefully selected to ensure real, measurable impact. Certified projects are developed in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), meaning your contribution delivers environmental, social, and economic co-benefits. Click here to give back in line with your travel impact.
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VCS
Protecting the Kasigau corridor forest
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VCS
Protect wildlife around the Cardamom mountains
Gold Standard
Reducing poverty and protecting biodiversity
Taking action for climate & biodiversity
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Restore coral reefs
Gold Standard
Provide clean and safe water
Gold Standard
One cookstove saves trees, hundreds save forests
Gold Standard
Reforesting the Amazon
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VCS
Sustainable agriculture & land managment
Gold Standard
Production & distribution of water purifiers
Gold Standard
Help improve lives and protect forests by providing more efficient cookstoves
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VCS
Protect forest and their wildlife
Choose your action
Our climate actions
Act Global
VCS
Gold Standard
Act for 100% of your emissions by supporting a certified climate project in a developing country. Your contribution helps create a global impact on climate change.
Act Local
ISO
Label Bas Carbone
Act for 100% of your emissions by supporting a certified climate project in Europe (Belgium, France, or the UK) that promotes regenerative agriculture. This supports sustainable, local solutions to climate challenges.
Act Glocal
VCS
Gold Standard
ISO
Label Bas Carbone
Combine global and local actions by acting for 100% of your emissions in a certified climate project. Additionally, support a local environmental initiative that contributes beyond carbon impact. This allows you to contribute to both immediate and long-term environmental benefits.
Act Sustainable
Support a non-certified environmental initiative. These projects are not directly linked to carbon sequestration or avoidance but focus on benefits such as waste reduction, climate education, biodiversity restoration, and more.
Our impact
Collective action
Climate change is a global challenge that calls for global collaboration. We are deeply grateful for the commitment and trust of our partners. Together, we have achieved meaningful progress, creating a collective impact.
101.459
tonnes of CO₂e avoided or stored through our partner climate projects
+50
collaborations with tourism professionals
+1.500.000
travel impact calculations per year
Our guarantee
You can trust us
As a climate partner
Greentripper is a committed and trusted climate partner, recognised by national and international tourism communities and initiatives. We lead by example by offering digital tools that are accurate, aligned with the latest scientific research, and designed specifically for the travel sector.
Alongside our tools, we provide expert guidance grounded in the most recent methodologies. Our team is trained by the Institut de la Formation Carbone (IFC) and works in line with recognised frameworks such as Bilan Carbone® and DEFRA (UK).
Transparency is at the heart of our approach. Our climate contributions are audited annually by an independent third party (Forum Ethibel), ensuring that all contributions are allocated to the climate projects selected by travellers and partners.
As a certified climate project supporter
Greentripper partners with climate projects that meet the highest international standards, such as the Gold Standard or Verified Carbon Standard (VCS). These projects undergo annual evaluations to ensure their impact on climate change is effective. Carbon credits are issued through this certified system for every tonne of CO2e that is avoided, or captured. Once sold, these credits are retired in a registry to guarantee they are only sold once.
This rigorous process, known as carbon crediting, ensures that every tonne of CO2e saved is booked, traceable, and verifiable. Greentripper operates its own carbon credit management registry.
Independent auditors, such as DNV, TÜV, or SGS, verify the monitoring of these projects to confirm they comply with established standards, such as those set by the Gold Standard or the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
As an environmental initiatives supporter
In addition to certified climate projects, Greentripper offers the opportunity to support trusted environmental initiatives focused on long-term goals. While these initiatives may not provide certified carbon credits, they play a vital role in addressing climate change by promoting diverse climate actions. Greentripper collaborates with reliable partners working on waste reduction, climate education in schools, and biodiversity restoration.
FAQs
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Why is it important to support climate projects?
All modes of transport (bus, train, tram, car, boat, plane) emit CO2e. Every time you travel, CO2 is released into the atmosphere. CO2 is a greenhouse gas produced when fossil fuels such as oil, gas or coal are burned. The more CO2 in the air, the warmer our planet becomes.
This warming already has and will continue to have consequences at both regional and global scale: shifts in temperature, more frequent and intense extreme weather events, declining resources such as fresh water, and rising sea levels. If greenhouse gas emissions do not decrease significantly in the coming years, many areas could become uninhabitable. Global warming is inevitable, but we can still limit it by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
According to a 2019 study by the UNWTO (the World Tourism Organization), transport-related greenhouse gas emissions from tourism accounted for 5% of total human-caused emissions in 2016, and are projected to rise to 5.3% by 2030.
In May 2018, researchers from the University of Sydney published a study showing that the global impact of tourism represents 8% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions. The study, published in Nature Climate Change, covers transport, accommodation, food and shopping by travellers.
Supporting climate projects is a voluntary and concrete way to take responsibility for your climate impact and CO2e emissions. By acting on 100% of your CO2e footprint, you enable us to support climate projects that not only prevent CO2e emissions but also generate broader sustainable socio-economic benefits. These projects would not exist without your support and without the voluntary carbon market. The projects proposed by Greentripper meet the highest international standards, to ensure your contribution makes a real difference.
How does CO2e contribution work?
When you contribute for 100% of your CO2e emissions from accommodations and transportation (car, plane, etc.), you make it possible to reduce, sequester, or avoid the same amount of CO2e emissions in a climate project as those emitted during your journey.Greentripper guarantees that your contribution for one tonne of CO2e corresponds to:
- one tonne of CO2 that is reduced or avoided through a certified climate project in a developping country
- or one tonne of CO2e that is sequestred in a sustainable project in Europe.
With the carbon contribution, you give us the opportunity to work with NGOs and communities to collectively mitigate climate change and participate in sustainable socio-economic development.To ensure that your contribution makes a real difference in favour of our climate, Greentripper only supports climate projects that meet the highest requirements.
Why should you both reduce your emissions and support climate projects?
Reducing your emissions as much as possible is the absolute first step. But however hard we try, some emissions are simply unavoidable. That is where certified climate projects come in. They give you the opportunity to take responsibility for those unavoidable emissions while contributing to global solutions. They align with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), addressing major challenges such as poverty, inequality and environmental degradation. By supporting these initiatives, you not only help avoid or sequester CO2e emissions, but also contribute to positive outcomes for ecosystems, communities and local economies.
At the same time, we need to change our travel behaviour. Simply supporting climate projects for your emissions does not solve the underlying climate problem and it also makes us dependent on climate projects that are themselves vulnerable to climate change. It is one part of the solution while we wait for other alternatives, but it remains an important element today if we want to reach our global climate goals and achieve net zero by 2050. Reducing your emissions is the first step; supporting climate projects is the second, for the remaining unavoidable emissions. It is an and-and story.
Why do we talk about climate contribution rather than carbon offsetting?
Carbon offsetting involves financing projects that reduce, avoid or sequester carbon in order to counterbalance your carbon footprint. A certified carbon contribution means purchasing carbon credits from projects that are certified and developed according to the strictest quality criteria.
At Greentripper, we have made a deliberate choice to replace the word "offsetting" with "contribution" and for good reason. The term "offsetting" suggests that the climate crisis can be resolved through simple accounting measures. Unfortunately, that is not the case. Addressing climate change requires a collective, long-term approach involving every sector.
By using the term "contribution", we acknowledge that our efforts are aimed at making a positive difference, not simply cancelling out negative impacts. The term emphasises our shared responsibility and invites individuals and organisations to play an active role, rather than relying solely on a technical mechanism.
This voluntary approach works best when combined with concrete efforts to reduce your CO2e emissions. It is an and-and story.
Why do we no longer talk about CO2e-neutral travel?
To understand this properly, it helps to first define the term 'carbon neutrality'. Carbon neutrality is a scientific concept defined by the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) as: the situation in which human-caused greenhouse gas emissions are balanced by human-led removals over a given period. It is about striking a balance between all human-caused emissions on one hand, and what can be absorbed by carbon sinks such as forests and soils, or by carbon capture and storage technologies on the other.
ADEME advocates for a long-term vision and daily action to contribute to the goal of territorial or global carbon neutrality. Individual organisations are not "carbon neutral" and cannot become or claim to be.
That is why Greentripper has made a deliberate choice to stop using the term 'CO2e-neutral' in relation to travel climate contributions. We firmly believe that 'CO2e-neutrality' only makes sense in a global context: as a contribution to collective carbon neutrality and only when significant efforts have already been made to reduce your ecological footprint upfront. A climate contribution is then the last resort for emissions that truly could not be avoided.
How much does it cost to support a climate project or environmental initiative?
The cost depends on your carbon footprint. Contributions to certified climate projects are calculated per tonne of CO2-equivalent (CO2e). The price per tonne varies depending on the project type, certification label, scale and location. To ensure full transparency, you receive a guarantee certificate for every contribution. Additionally, Forum Ethibel conducts an independent annual audit confirming that 100% of CO2e contributions made through Greentripper are fully allocated to the project of your choice.
What impact does your climate contribution have on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?
Thanks to your carbon contribution, we also strengthen the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) in developing countries. Indeed, the climate projects with which CO2logic and Greentripper work are located in developing countries, which allows local populations to combine socio-economic development and CO2e emission reduction on a global level.