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Fly green and compensate your CO2 emissions!

If you intend to travel by plane, we encourage you to compensate your flights emissions.

Several organizations offer to compensate your CO2 emissions relative to your transport by investing your money in renewable energy projects in the developing countries. Fair Wings has selected a few of them…

The UK organization Climate Care

The French NGO Geres which runs CO2solidaire

The Swiss My Climate

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This list in non exhaustive.

The Non Governmental / Non Profit Organisations

In France: Consult the page dedicated to France

Abroad

TEN - Third World Tourism Ecumenical European Net - is a network of European organisations which are active in the field of tourism and the effects it has on the people of the Third World.

TIES is the International Ecotourism Society.

Planeta is a clearinghouse for practical ecotourism around the globe.

Ecoclub is a worldwide cooperative network promoting genuine ecotourism.

Ecotrans is a European network of experts and organisations in Tourism, Environment and regional development, who are seeking to promote good practice in the field of sustainable Tourism.

Conservation International is an American NGO working in many fields including ecotourism.

The Responsible Tourism Partnership is an NGO working in partnerships to improve destinations for local people and their visitors.is an Indian NPO established for research, training and the promotion of holistic tourism.

The institutions, international organisations:

WTO - World Tourism Organisation - has a sustainable development of tourism section.

UNEP - United Nations Environment Program - works on tourism and has a very complete tourism section.

The tourism section of the stakeholder forum's Earth Summit offer many links.

WTTC - World Travel & Tourism Council - is the forum for global business leaders.

CRC for Sustainable Tourism Develops and manages intellectual property (IP) to deliver innovation to business, community and government to enhance the environmental, economic and social sustainability of tourism.

The Global Development Research Center is a virtual organization that gives information about ecotourism.

BEST - Business Entreprises for Sustainable Travel - is an initiative of The Conference Board in association with the World Travel & Tourism Council and the International Hotel & Restaurant Association.

Tourism-Site is a network for the sustainable development of tourism destinations in Europe.

The Rainforest Alliance co-ordinated a Feasibility Study for a Global Sustainable Tourism Stewardship Council and is very active on certification issues.

VISIT gather together ecological labels in Europe and offer a guide of the labeled establishments.

The International bureau of Social Tourism groups together more than 145 members in about 40 countries.

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