Global Forest Fund

FEE´s Global Forest Fund
Climate change is affected by most types of transportation (flights, cars, boats, trains, etc). In order to protect the climate, it is of course best to minimize the effects though travelling less or through carefully choosing the means of transportation. This is however not easy in our globalised world.

As FEE is an organisation working for promoting sustainable development, we have decided to establish a general compensation of the CO2 emission from all our international flight travels. 

The distance between city of departure and city of arrival can be calculated using the Geobytes City Distance Tool. Knowing the distance you are going to travel, the CO2 compensation cost can be calculated using the formula as indicated in the CO2 calculation method.

FEE's Fund supports tree planting and environmental education activities
The funding derived from CO2 compensation will be entered into FEE's Global Forest Fund administrated by the International Learning about Forests (LEAF) Coordination.

Schools involved in the environmental education programmes of FEE (LEAF, Eco-Schools and YRE) can through their national coordinator apply for funding from the Fund for planting of trees and other activities in connection with the tree planting and maintenance. Environmental education activities must be combined with the efforts. Schools from countries outside the FEE network can also apply for funding from the CO2 Fund and a national NGO must apply on behalf of the school. Documents with application form and application procedure can be downloaded from the right box of this page.

90% of the income is used for tree planting and other CO2 compensation efforts combined with the environmental education activities. Information about the use of FEE's Global Forest Fund will be produced continuously and can be downloaded from the right box of this page.

You can participate!
FEE has decided that also persons, organisations and institutions outside the FEE network can have CO2 compensation of flight and car travels through FEE´s Global Forest Fund by using the FEE Donation Shop.

In case of any questions regarding the FEE's CO2 compensation system or use of FEE's Global Forest Fund, please do not hesitate to contact the FEE Secretariat.

You can read more about FEE's Global Forest Fund in the publication "FEE's Global Forest Fund".