Travel booking app Hopper announced that it will offer free carbon offsets for customers for every flight and hotel booked through the app, in an effort to address climate change
Travel app Hopper has committed to carbon offsets in an effort to be the first sustainable booking“With this growth comes an opportunity and a duty to act in a way that is responsible, especially as it has become increasingly clear that we are in a climate emergency,” said Fred Lalonde, CEO and founder of Hopper. He spent six months devising the plan to become a. “Corporations have a responsibility to act, and we’re proud to take the lead in the travel-booking marketplace.
Part of the motivation for Hopper Trees, said Lalonde, is that in 2019, the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere surpassed levels seen throughout the course of human history by more than 100 parts per million.
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