Greyhound Australia to Begin Carbon Offset Program
by Brian Merchant, Brooklyn, New York 
on 11. 8.08
The global carbon solutions company Cleaner Climate announced a partnership with Greyhound Australia last week. The companies are initiating a carbon offset program that customers can purchase along with their ticket—for just a single extra dollar. Additionally, the companies are cooperating to create a carbon action plan to improve energy efficiency throughout Greyhound’s offices and terminals.
Greyhound is Australia’s only national coach company, so there’s plenty of potential for widespread impact. According to Cleaner Climate, “if one in three Greyhound Australia customers choose to travel green, over 15,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent can be offset annually through carbon reduction projects.” Greyhound has invested around 11 million dollars in upgrading its fleet of buses—now they’re each 25 percent more fuel efficiency than before.
As an additional incentive to inspire customers to participate in the offset program, those who pony up the extra buck will be entered into a drawing where they could potentially in a 1 kW solar panel system. Public transportation is already helping cut emissions—Greyhound’s offset program is an encouraging bonus.
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I'm not sure the average distance of a Greyhound trip in Australia, but $1 is actually pretty steep.
The other day I looked up the fuel efficiency of a passenger bus and the average occupancy, and I found out that a round trip from Boston to NY is about 10-15kg of CO2.
I don't know if that is an average CO2/per, but $1 to offset it would price CO2 at about $67-100 per ton. Meanwhile, even high quality carbon offsets are generally below $20/ton.
Gday , Greyhound do mainly longer distance coach trips in australia, its a long way to anywhere here !
$1 would be insignificant to fare price,but most people are just tight and wouldnt do it ,if given the option
I think it's great.
$1 is easy and would probably could take into account other co2 emissions associated with your trip as well.
You go in the draw to win a solar system too so overall good bang for your buck!