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Carbon Voyage is a new travel start up that aims to help firms reduce and offset their business journey carbon emissions.
Carbon Voyage will provide companies with the opportunity to book taxis, private hire cars and trains through one online service that will then decide the greenest way for the customer to complete their planned journey. The service will automatically pick a train journey over a car in an attempt to minimize emissions.
As well as choosing the most efficient journey Carbon Voyage will use Planet Positive, an off set provider, to off set any CO2 emissions that result from the journey.
The service will record the CO2 emissions generated on the journey and provide a cost for those emissions to the company or customer who is traveling
James Swanston, the company’s chief executive said that partnerships had been set up with the Gatwick and Heathrow Express and that they already had 5,000 cars, a number of which are hybrid, throughout the London area.
“At the moment we have a London focus, but we are looking to build that out and add all UK train operators and other cab and executive car suppliers,” said Swanston. “In the long term we are also looking to add flight-booking capabilities and are investigating providing web conferencing services through the site so people can avoid travelling altogether where possible.”
Carbon Voyage’s website also contains information on car pooling and will inform travelers when they can share a car with someone making the same journey.
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