Delta Air Lines imachotsa mpweya wambiri wampweya kwa makasitomala opitilira 300K pa Tsiku Lapadziko Lapansi

Pokondwerera Tsiku la Dziko Lapansi lero, Delta ikuletsa kutulutsa kwanthawi zonse zosangalatsa zapakhomo ndi maulendo abizinesi kulowa ndi kutuluka ku New York, Boston, Seattle, Los Angeles, Raleigh-Durham ndi Atlanta kwa makasitomala opitilira 300,000 mdziko lonselo.

Mapepala obzala mbewu opangidwa ngati ndege adzagawidwa pamaulendo osankhidwawa kuti makasitomala adziwe kuti chilengedwe cha ndege yawo chathetsedwa ndikuwalimbikitsa kuti athetse maulendo owonjezera pa delta.com/co2. Ikadzabzalidwa, ndege yapadera imeneyi imamera maluwa akuthengo osawononga.

"Delta inatsogolera makampani oyendetsa ndege ku US poyambitsa pulogalamu yoyamba ya carbon offset mu 2007, zomwe zimapangitsa kuti makasitomala athe kuchepetsa kuwonongeka kwa chilengedwe paulendo wawo," anatero John Laughter, Wachiwiri Wachiwiri Wachiwiri - Corporate Safety, Security and Compliance. "Delta ndiyenso ndege yayikulu yokhayo yomwe ingathe kutulutsa mpweya wa kaboni mchaka cha 2012 pogula zochotsera mpweya."

Kuyambira 2013, Delta yagula mwakufuna kwawo ma carbon offsets opitilira 12 miliyoni, omwe ndi ofanana ndi mpweya wochokera pamagalimoto 1.7 miliyoni kapena kugwiritsa ntchito magetsi kwa chaka chimodzi m'nyumba pafupifupi 2 miliyoni. Izi ndizoposa ndege zonse zaku US. Masiku ano kokha, Delta igula pafupifupi 50,000 zochotsera mpweya. Kuti timvetsetse izi, ma offset 50,000 adzakhala ofanana ndi mpweya wochokera pamagalimoto opitilira 10,000 oyendetsedwa kwa chaka chimodzi.

Delta's carbon offsets kuti apindule ndi polojekiti ya Conservation Coast ku Guatemala

Kugula kulikonse kwa Delta lero kudzapindulitsa ntchito ya Conservation Coast offset, yomwe imapereka chitetezo cha chilengedwe ku kudula mitengo ndi mwayi wopeza moyo wokhazikika kwa anthu aku Guatemala. Zosiyanasiyanazi zithandiza kuteteza mitundu yopitilira 400 ya mbalame ndi mahekitala 54,000 a nkhalango zowopsa zomwe zili m'mphepete mwa nyanja ya Caribbean ku Guatemala.

Pulojekiti ya Conservation Coast imathandizanso kuti anthu azikhala ndi moyo wokhazikika m'madera akumidzi pophunzitsa zinthu monga zaulimi zomwe zimagwira ntchito bwino pa zachuma komanso zachilengedwe zomwe zimagwira ntchito ndi chilengedwe osati kutsutsana nazo. Mpaka pano, ntchito zoposa 700 zikuthandizidwa ndi ntchitoyi, ndipo 30 peresenti ya ntchitozi ndi ya akazi.

"Ku Delta, timakhulupirira kuti kulumikiza dziko kumayamba ndikusamalira," adatero Laughter. "Ntchito zochepetsera zomwe timathandizira ndizokwanira, zomwe zimapitilira kuthana ndi kukhudzidwa kwa chilengedwe ndi maulendo kuti apereke chuma, mphamvu ndi mwayi wandalama kwa anthu omwe alibe chitetezo monga omwe akugwira nawo ntchito ya Conservation Coast."
Offsetting ndi yotsika mtengo. Tikiti yobwerera kuchokera ku Atlanta kupita ku New York imatulutsa matani 0.28 a CO2, omwe amatha kuchepetsedwa ndi ndalama zosakwana $5.

Izi ndi zina ndichifukwa chake Delta idalemekezedwa ndi Vision For America Award ndi Keep America Beautiful mu 2017, yodziwika ndi Captain Planet Foundation's Superhero Corporate Award mu 2018, yomwe idatchedwa FTSE4Good Index kwa zaka zinayi zotsatizana, zophatikizidwa mu Dow Jones Sustainability North. America Index kwa zaka zisanu ndi zitatu zotsatizana, atatchulidwa mwaulemu mu Fast Company's 2019 World Changing Ideas Awards ndipo adatcha imodzi mwamakampani 100 okhazikika ku America malinga ndi kafukufuku wozama wa Barron.