IATA to team up with Travelyst to tell passengers about their carbon footprints

Industry body the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said on December 7 it aims to make sure flyers would get “consistent, accurate” measurements of their carbon footprints. The IATA said it had “joined forces” with Travalyst, which describes itself as a “not-for-profit organisation which seeks to catalyse sustainability within the tourism industry”, to make such calculations more accurate as part of industry efforts to eliminate carbon emissions by 2050.s. The tie-up, the IATA announced, is “focus on both data and standard methodology for route-based passenger [carbon] emissions calculations for aviation at scale” and woukld include “a shared position on how