Business travel accounts for 405 million long-distance trips in the United States alone. The majority of these trips are under 250 miles each way and the automobile is the preferred method of travel. While most trips are done by car, 16% of all business trips are taken by airplane.
Flights emit roughly 1/4 of a ton per passenger per 1000 miles travelled
This means that cost of a single passenger's round-trip flight from Boston to LA can be up to 5 tons of emissions!
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This bundle assumes an average employee that travels 1250 miles by car and 2500 miles by air in a single year for business. This equates to the retiring of credits for 2 metrics tons of carbon emissions.
