THE WHAT

We want to measure, reduce and simultaneously remove carbon emissions when your travellers go on a Discova tour. Carbon emissions are a primary driver of climate change, and there’s no escaping the fact that when people travel, there’s a whole lot of carbon emitting going on. This is in many ways unavoidable, and at Discova we already try to limit the impact of our tours by: employing local people, choosing suppliers with effective sustainability strategies, using local supply chains, and support local community development. But together with you, we can do more.

Our mission is now something bigger with carbon impact correction. We may not be able to entirely prevent the carbon emissions of the tours your travellers take with us, but we are able to mitigate our collective effects on the environment with carbon reduction and removal initiatives. We can do so with a twofold approach:

Discova’s Carbon Impact Correction Plan aims to calculate the emissions of every activity and tour we sell, and together with our partners find alternative products and services that reduce those emissions for you. The ultimate objective is to grow your sustainable travel offerings with us.

We want to go further by proactively combatting the effects of the unavoidable carbon emissions generated by our passengers while they travel in-destination. As our client, you can also choose to invest in fully accredited sustainable energy production and carbon removal projects around the world with carbon credits. These will be accurately measured and purchased in respect to the emissions of our operations and your travellers’ trips.

The How

We have decided to start with one simple, trusted approach in collaboration with Path Net Zero (PNZ). Using PNZ’s’ carbon calculator*, which is specifically tailored to the travel sector, we will measure and calculate all your travellers’ emissions across services booked and delivered by Discova in-destination (domestic flights, all land transportation, boats, trains and accommodation).

We take out the complexity and make measuring your impact simple and easily correctable. We want to make this as seamless as possible for you: we do all the nitty-gritty calculating for you and offer you alternative, lowerimpact travel solutions. Further down the impact correction journey, you can choose to invest in carbon removal projects that are internationally certified and recognised.

For a more detailed breakdown of how our emissions will be calculated, take a look at the Path Net Zero Calculator Data Sources document.