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International private sector partnership attempts to tackle “Kyoto Protocol Exempt Global Airline Industry’s Pollution,” -one traveler at a time.

Greenwood Lake, New York (Reuters) Jun 29, 2004 – The Global Airline Industry is sharply reducing the positive environmental benefits of the Kyoto Protocol.

The largest negative impact of air travel is the jet greenhouse gas emissions. The UK-USA private sector partnership between Climatecare.org and vacationtechnician.com presents an elegant solution to offset one of the largest unchecked catalysts driving global climate change, widely known as Global Warming.

Despite the global airline industry's heavy environmental toll, guidelines on international aircraft emissions were excluded from the Kyoto protocol on climate change and aviation fuel is tax-exempt. High altitude airline exhaust is one of the fastest growing sources of greenhouse gases. The exponential growth of low cost air carriers worldwide is only serving to compound the problem.

’At the Third Session of the Conference of the Parties in Kyoto, international aviation emissions were not included in the agreed targets, because of the difficulties that had arisen over the methodologies for allocating these emissions.’

Example: during a typical flight from Europe and the USA to Africa: from London to Johannesburg each passenger is responsible for 2.5 tons of CO2 while if flying from New York, this rises to 3.5 tons!

The Vacation Technician Company offers a convenient way of both calculating these emissions and “repairing” their negative impact on Earth's atmosphere. Each vacationtechnician.com client is consulted regarding the carbon created by their flight. Clients are then asked to make a distance calculated "offset" or financial contribution which funds a CO2 reduction project in a financially less fortunate country, professionally managed by Climatecare.org

"Beneath the glamorous high-flying image of aviation is a grossly polluting industry," said Paul de Zylva, head of Friends of the Earth in London.

“Amid years of scientific warnings on Climate Change and Global Warming, real conservation options have been non existent for environmentally sensitive air travelers,” says David Chamberlain, director of vacationtechnician.com. “We are excited to enable our clients an option to "offset" the excessive greenhouse gas and carbon emissions generated as they fly to the most enchanting wilderness retreats in the world.”

Climate Care was formed in 1998 as a limited company, to help individuals and organizations reduce their own impact on global warming. Then, as now, we were in no doubt of the enormity of the challenge, but we reasoned: "One World. One Climate. Two Choices." The first choice is to ignore the problem and hope it will go away by itself. The second choice is to acknowledge the problem and then take sensible, sure steps to resolving it.

The VacationTechnician Company is committed to providing discerning international traveler’s routes of discovery to both explore & protect the most remote & pristine wildlife areas left on our planet. Enlightening and exhilarating adventure tourism can bring hope to less developed economies and those less fortunate while at the same time sustaining and protecting our rapidly diminishing natural areas worldwide. Luxury adventure never made so much sense.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

David Chamberlain
The VacationTechnician Company
155 Blueberry Hill
Greenwood Lake, NY 10925
1-866-589-8792 USA
001-866-589-8792 International
http://www.vacationtechnician.com/x/climatecare.htm

Tom Morton
ClimateCare
58 Church Way
Oxford
OX4 4EF
United Kingdom
http://www.climatecare.org
Tel: +44 (0)1865 777 770

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vacationtechnician.com introduces a Referral Rewards program to thank former clients and the prospective new clients

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100,000 new supporters for the Botswana Bushmen

Bushman Advertisement 17 June 2002, Vancouver Sun, Canada

Number of Botswana Bushmen supporters climbs to 200,000!

A Petition will be handed in in eight countries
Survival supporters around the world are handing in a 100,000 signature petition to Botswana embassies and consulates this week. The hand-in marks the second anniversary of the forced relocation of hundreds of Gana and Gwi 'Bushmen' from their ancestral land. One year ago Survival presented the first 100,000 signatures to the Botswana government.

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The Bushmen ‘are some of the most endangered human beings on earth. The government is ethnically cleansing them in ways that would cause outrage if Botswana were not prosperous, stable and pro-Western.’ -John Simpson, BBC World Affairs Editor, Sunday Telegraph, UK, 2002

‘Each morning we get up and we just sit around because there is nothing for us to do. We really feel sad. We think right now that our ancestors are angry with us. That’s why you see that in New Xade the death rate is very high. This shows us that our ancestors are very angry because we have been parted from them. We are not keeping company and living with them. We are very far from them.’ -Lesolobe Mogetse, son of Mogetse who died in the New Xade resettlement camp, 2003. After his death, Survival International published a transcript of Mogetse talking about life in the Bushmen’s own land and their treatment by the government. You can read his words online by clicking here.

‘I don’t feel happy here. I don’t know what I am. I feel like nothing, I feel like I’m dead. I really feel weak. I don’t feel like a human being. I really miss my land.’
- Kaobosetswa Mogetse, widow of Mogetse, 2003

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Amongst the supporters are a delegation of Ogiek hunter-gatherers in Kenya. In a statement they say, 'the heart of the Ogiek people goes out to our brothers and sisters the Gana and Gwi Bushmen... Brothers and sisters: do not let your persecutors make you forget who you are: no matter how far away from it you have been taken, the land and life your forefathers gave you belong to you. Be strong! You will see your land again!'

Petitions will be handed in in the USA (Washington, Los Angeles and New York), Belgium, Germany, Japan, UK, Switzerland, Kenya and South Africa. The petition calls on the government to allow the Gana and Gwi to return to their ancestral land.

Stephen Corry, Director of Survival said today, 'This unprecedented level of support shows just how outraged international public opinion is about the Botswana government's persecution of its indigenous people. Support for the campaign keeps on growing, and will not end until the Bushmen are back on their land.'

Photos and footage available. For more information contact Miriam Ross on (+44) (0)20 7687 8734 or email

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