KILROY x myclimate

At KILROY, we don't want to walk away from our responsibility when it comes to sustainability. Making all travel fully sustainable is near impossible, and definitely not a one-man-job, but a team effort between us, our partners, competitors and travellers worldwide. 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. And while carbon offsetting -unfortunately- is not the magical solution it's often made out to be (looking at you - airlines!), we feel like we've got to do something while technical innovations like electric or hydrogen planes become more common. That's why we've been hard at work creating a realistic carbon compensation program that's offering more than simply planting trees absorbing CO2. The projects we work with through our partner myclimate reflect this, as they are centered in areas where climate is only one of the many challenges that local communities are facing.

Currently, we carbon offset all of our own travel, as well as offer our customers a transparent, ambitious solution for offsetting CO2. By supporting 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 aim to compensate greenhouse gasses, but at the same time improve the lives of thousands of people in the local communities.

Over the past few years, the climate debate went from new and heated to stronger yet more and more complex. But while this is still relatively new territory, we realise there's no time like the present to make the necessary steps to make our business and the travel industry as a whole more responsible. We consider it a learning process, and we certainly still have grounds to cover. But as we take our responsibility, we invite you to join us on this journey. KILROY x myclimate is just the first step of our sustainability strategy. 

Most airlines and plenty of travel brands offer the possibility for CO2 offsetting of your emissions, but the quality of those efforts varies greatly. At KILROY, we wanted our efforts to be as realistic as possible to generate real impact. That's why we tasked a panel of independent, internationally acclaimed advisors to consult and help us to draft the criteria for a CO2 compensation partner. Based on these criteria, myclimate was chosen. Myclimate is one of the frontrunners in voluntary carbon offsetting through local initiatives in developing countries. By opting to work with myclimate, these two key priorities were the deciding factor: 

1. A realistic calculation that makes your flight travel genuinely carbon neutral
2. A set-up that allows for full transparency and project identification, so we can share with our customers how their money spent on CO2 offsetting is being used.

Read "How we calculate" to understand why we consider our carbon offset model to be so strong and why our offering is more expensive compared to some of our competitors. We feel it's our responsibility to paint the real picture about the cost of offsetting your flights real CO2 emissions instead of offering symbolic compensation.