Lessen My Flight Program FAQs

Offsetting is a mechanism that allows individuals and organizations to reduce their environmental impact. Carbon offsets are designed to help mitigate the emissions associated with one activity (such as necessary air travel) with another activity elsewhere that avoids or reduces an equivalent amount of emissions. For example, the impact of greenhouse gases (GHGs) associated with a flight from Toronto to Calgary may be reduced by preventing the release of an equivalent amount of GHGs through the implementation of a renewable energy or energy efficiency project elsewhere in the world.

Less is Canada's only provider of an EcoLogo^M-certified carbon offset program for businesses and individuals interested in lessening their environmental impact.

Less offers:

• Gold Standard offsets derived from international projects meeting the Gold Standard Foundation's sustainable development criteria, as endorsed by leading environmental groups including WWF International.
• Canadian offsets sourced from projects that have achieved certification under the VER+ Standard, a globally recognized standard for voluntary GHG emissions reductions projects.

Find out more about the Less difference here.

Carbon offsets can be purchased online, over the phone or in person at any UNIGLOBE travel agency in Canada. The calculation of the impact of your flight is based on three things:

• the mileage of the flight, calculated using the Great Circle Method;
• flight-related CO2 emission data from Environmental Canada; and
• the average cost of carbon credits purchased by UNIGLOBE Travel's program partner Less Emissions Inc.

Less is Canada's only provider of an EcoLogo^M-certified carbon offset program for businesses and individuals interested in lessening their environmental impact. Less' international-based offsets are derived from projects meeting the Gold Standard Foundation's sustainable development criteria, as endorsed by leading environmental groups including WWF International. Less' Canadian-based offsets are sourced from projects that have achieved certification under the VER+ Standard, a globally recognized standard for voluntary GHG emissions reductions projects. In conjunction with conservation and switching to environmentally low-impact products and services, offsetting with trusted, verifiably additional offsets from Less can allow homes and organizations to reduce their carbon footprint and leave a lighter impact on the earth. The company has pledged 10% of profits to organizations that support sustainability. Less is a trademark of Less Emissions Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Bullfrog Power Inc.

Less is ranked as the highest quality offset provider in Purchasing Carbon Offsets: A Guide for Canadian Consumers, Businesses and Organizations released by the David Suzuki Foundation and the Pembina Institute.

Lessen My Flight™is Canada's first EcoLogo^M-certified, independently audited flight offset program for businesses and individuals interested in lessening the environmental impact of air travel.

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