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March 2009 - We achieved accreditation for our Carbon Offsetting Scheme

Customers can be even more confident their carbon offsetting is making a difference after British Airways' innovative scheme won approval from the government.

The Department for Energy and Climate Change has launched the Carbon Offsetting Quality Assurance Scheme to help consumers easily identify carbon offsetting projects that offer genuine carbon savings. Companies need to demonstrate their projects are compliant with international standards to offer genuine, additional, measurable carbon savings. The scheme is being administered by climate change and energy consultancy AEA.

Carbon offsetting allows customers to compensate for emissions by helping fund projects that deliver an equivalent CO2 saving elsewhere. The approval marks another first for BA - not only was it the first airline to offer carbon offsetting but it is the first airline to win approval.