We enjoy being on the move, love travelling and especially adventures. Meanwhile, we have made our travel behavior alternative and sustainable, and thus almost always manage to save CO2. With CO2mpensio we want to let this spark pass on to other young, interested people and enterprises without preaching renunciation.
Already since June 2016, the free CO2mpensio App for the calculation of CO2 emissions for road trips and air travel by private individuals is available on the market. Compensation donations made in this regard will benefit a climate protection project in Ethiopia to 100%. The handling of the App is straightforward and up to date, and so is our handling of the topic. We want to revolutionize the negative CO2 discourse through positive action alternatives and simultaneously stimulate rethinking.
So far, we have built up a 2000-member community on Facebook which we encourage not only to use our App, but in particular to a comprehensive CO2 reduction going far beyond the mobility sector. The long-term goal is to launch a climate protection movement. With a reach of over 90,000 people on Facebook in December 2016, we are already well on the way!
We are currently working with a renowned environmental consultancy from Germany to develop an extended business version for the business trips of environmentally aware companies. In addition to the possibility of compensating for business trips, the implementation of environmentally friendly alternatives is also aimed for. Here, our app will be expanded to include a web-based counterpart, offering companies a portfolio of four climate protection projects (twice with Gold Standard). The development of the partner projects can be viewed transparently and the companies‘ impact will be processed and visualized in an appealing way in terms of marketing-engineering. The compensatory donations will be sent to the climate protection projects to 100%. A profit margin is generated through the provision of the App – a monthly fee is payable for this IT-service.
Students involved in the project:
Julia Bauer (TU), Florian Doebler (WU), Hannah Maxie Frost (Uni Vienna), Lukas Kruppa (WU), Roxane Seiwald (BOKU)
Contact CO2mpensio:
Facebook-page: https://www.facebook.com/compensio/
Homepage: https://compensio.org/
