Climate protection through energy efficiency
Aircraft fuel savings thanks to continuous fleet renewal
Greenhouse gas reduction is a global challenge. TUI therefore actively participates in the public debate on climate protection. Concerning greenhouse gas emissions, the debate focuses in particular on aviation. TUI’s climate strategy primarily aims to increase its energy efficiency. The TUI Group’s emissions data presented in the management report provide a sound basis for the launch of a continuous improvement process. By means of a gradual renewal of TUI’s aircraft fleet, a total of 1.47 million tonnes of carbon dioxide is to be saved by 2014. With the introduction of Boeing ‘Dreamliner’ B787s, aircraft fuel consumption is to be reduced by one quarter in the corresponding long-haul segment. TUI airlines are among the first in Europe to integrate this aircraft into their fleets.
Voluntary carbon offsetting by TUI air tours
Since 2007 TUI has offered its customers the opportunity to offset greenhouse gas emissions resulting from air tours in cooperation with the ‘myclimate’ foundation. This foundation facilitates tangible climate protection by means of supporting projects to achieve greenhouse gas reductions. ‘Myclimate’ provides a conversion model showing TUI customers the proportional carbon dioxide (CO2) emission of the flight they are about to book and the resulting amount of voluntary climate protection duty required to compensate for the CO2 proportion. The donations made by TUI customers are used by ‘myclimate’ for a specific development aid projects in Eritrea in Africa. Besides the certified reduction in CO2, this approach thus also helps to substantially improve the living conditions of people in that area. Other group companies such as TUI UK, TUI Nederland, TUI Nordic and Gebeco also offer voluntary schemes to offset aircraft emissions.
In container shipping, specific emissions per TEU were further reduced through the use of new state-of-the-art container ships with a capacity of 8,750 standard containers (TEU).
Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) 5
In 2007, the TUI Group again participated in the industry-wide carbon disclosure activities: TUI’s emissions balance was described in the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) 5 alongside the strategic aspects of TUI’s climate-related policy and was thus made accessible to analysts and investors.