At KILROY, we don't want to walk away from our responsibility when it comes to sustainability. Making all travel sustainable is not a one-man-job, but a team effort between us, our partners, competitors and our customers. We see it as our responsibility to kickstart initiatives that support the process of making the world a better place to live for the next generations, and we truly believe travel is the ultimate way to break boundaries and inspire change.
That's why our approach reflects a broader take on responsibility than climate initiatives alone, with our vision on slow and local travel slowly but surely finding a place in the travel landscape. While we are happy to play a part in changing our industry by influencing travellers, we can't get around the fact that air travel has a large contribution to the release of greenhouse gases, specifically CO2. That's why we've looked into creating a realistic carbon compensation program that's offering more than simply planting trees. The projects we work with in carbon offsetting reflect this as they are centered in areas where climate is only one of the challenges that local communities deal with. Under our partnership with MyClimate we carbon compensate our own travel, as well as help our customers with a transparent, ambitious solution for offsetting CO2. by choosing to support two specific projects in Nicaragua and Madagascar, we can clearly see and monitor the result of our contributions as well as how the carbon offsetting funds are being used. Both are high-quality community-based projects that not only compensate greenhouse gasses, but at the same time improve the lives of thousands of people in the local communities.
Explore the projects we're working with or read about the concept of slow travelling, a movement that is changing the way we experience travel, below.