WE DECLARE A CLIMATE EMERGENCY

Our commitments

1. Develop a ‘Climate Action Plan’ within the next 12 months, which sets out our intentions to reduce carbon emissions over the next decade. 

2. Share an initial public declaration of our ‘Climate Action Plan’, and update on progress each year. 

3. Work towards supporting current IPCC advice - stating the need to cut global carbon emissions to 55% below 2017 levels by 2030 in order to keep the planet within 1.5 degrees of warming. We’ll ensure our ‘Climate Action Plan’ represents actions designed to achieve this as a minimum, through delivering transparent, measurable, and increasing reductions in the total carbon emissions per customer arising from our operations and the travel services sold by us. 

4. Encourage our suppliers and partners to make the same declaration; sharing best practice among peers; and actively participate in the Tourism Declares community.

5. Advocate for change. We recognise the need for systemic change across the industry, and call for urgent regulatory action to accelerate the transition towards zero carbon air travel.

What we are doing already

Rewilding

In 2019 we partnered with Mossy Earth. Through this partnership we are working to offset our carbon emissions with rewilding projects; including planting native trees in the UK and Europe with each trip sold. Our aim is to support the reinstatement of lost wilderness in Europe, and to aid in improving biodiversity in order to restore native ecosystems. You can read more about this HERE

This means when you book a trek with us, you are making an impact through Carbon Offsetting and restoring lost wilderness in the UK and Europe. 

Water Filters to reduce plastic use on our trips

We introduced purified water filters on our treks back in March 2019 meaning no more plastic and no more chlorinated water. We were the first high altitude trekking company to introduce this onto all of our treks in Nepal and it made a huge difference. Not only did our trekkers save money by not buying single use plastic bottles; they also significantly reduced the waste output associated with travel in Nepal.

In the first season we introduced this water filtration system, we worked out that just by making this simple change we had saved 16,500 1ltr plastic bottles from being used in the Everest region. In just 1 season! We added these all together and worked out that if you stacked these on top of one another, it's the equivalent height of 5 Ben Nevis mountains on top of one another!  We are now working towards introducing this change on all of our treks, worldwide.

We are not perfect by any means and there is still a lot to do - but we stand alongside a group of like-minded travel companies acknowledging the environment around us. As fellow signatories of Tourism Declares a Climate Emergency, we will learn from one another, take responsibility for our actions (at an individual level, company level, and industry level) and push for regulatory action, research and development. There is no excuse for waiting, this is why we are acting now.  

If you want to keep up to date with what we are doing to support our planet, you can check out our Climate Action Plan here.