Air Travel and Carbon Tax policy

Lush UK air travel policy

• Lush UK employees do not make any domestic flights within the UK Mainland.
• Travel to from UK to Paris, France is done via the Euro Star train service from London.

Lush UK Carbon Tax scheme

• When Lush UK people use air travel, we calculate the Carbon generated.
• We ‘tax’ ourselves at a rate of £50 per metric tonne.
• The money from our Carbon Tax is used to fund climate change and transport campaign groups.

The Lush Carbon measurement includes

• CO2 emissions
• The warming effect of aircraft engine exhaust gases on the Earth’s atmosphere.
• The damage  to the atmosphere, caused by aerosol gases created by aircraft engines.

How do we calculate our Carbon used?

• 1 mile of air travel = 0.87 kilograms of Carbon.
• 1 kilometre of air travel = 0.54 kilograms of Carbon

Example of Carbon calculation

• Flight to Madrid - Flight distance is 1543 miles
• Carbon created is 1543 miles x 0.87 kg = 1,342 kg
• 1,342kg = 1.342 metric tonnes
• Carbon Tax is £50 per metric tonne
• 1.342 metric tonnes x £50 = £67.10

Carbon Tax from this flight payable to Charities would be £67.10 

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