In January 2024, Tomorrow’s Air, The ATTA and Innovation Norway launched a year-long exploration of climate innovation. Together, we’ve delved into crucial topics for businesses, facilitated discussions with industry leaders, journalists and entrepreneurs, and now we’re taking a closer look at the vital role of governments and their policies that lay the groundwork for sustainable progress.

In this month’s news, Google drops carbon neutrality in favor of high quality removals, a judicial setback for air in the United States, plus highlights from the recent International Conference on Negative Emissions and the fate of a fledgling e-fuels project in Sweden.

Americans living as far south as Florida were able to see the northern lights last month, and this anomaly led us to seek out some professional insight. In this interview learn from Dr. Holly Spice, a scottish geologist currently based in Iceland who clues us into the science behind why this particular solar storm happened and what this means for our earth.

For travelers and travel company leaders hoping to see carbon removal build, this month’s news offers more evidence of industry growth, including multi-million dollar investments and continued development of monitoring and verification programs.

This month’s news offers more evidence of the carbon removal industry moving forward with new incentives to buyers, more mainstream recognition, and new industry groups.

As travelers it can help to understand the difference between emissions avoidance and carbon dioxide removal. Many conventional offsetting programs fund emissions avoidance projects. In this short article learn the difference between carbon removal and emissions avoidance and why both are needed to help restore our climate.

Read news highlights from the carbon removal and sustainable aviation fuel communities and find out how they relate to the business of sustainable travel in this article.

Read news highlights from the carbon removal and sustainable aviation fuel communities and find out how they relate to the business of sustainable travel in this article.

From the very start Tomorrow’s Air has put education at the forefront. With the support of our partners we educate, inspire and mobilize travelers to fund innovations that help clean up our atmosphere. In this series learn how we’re engaging the travel industry to help build understanding and acceptance for carbon removal and sustainable aviation fuel.

Read news highlights from the carbon removal and sustainable aviation fuel communities and find out how they relate to the business of sustainable travel in this article.

Read news highlights from the carbon removal and sustainable aviation fuel communities and find out how they relate to the business of sustainable travel in this article.

When carbon dioxide is sucked out of the atmosphere and stored permanently underground, what existed as a gas in the atmosphere turns into solid rock. We can’t see this happening with our naked eye, but in fact it's happening all around us, all the time. In this month's Airbite, visualize how carbon transforms from solid, to liquid, to gas.

Read news highlights from the carbon removal and sustainable aviation fuel communities and find out how they relate to the business of sustainable travel in this article.

Did you know that what you eat on your next trip can help reduce global emissions? In this article and a new social series we’ll inspire you to eat local and fresh on your next trip - it’s not only great for your health, it will also help reduce your travel emissions.

Sustainable aviation fuel tends to get all the attention, but there are a range of alternative fuels to help conserve fuel and reduce emissions that climate conscious travelers can be on the lookout for when planning travel. Learn more about them in this article.

“Electric vehicles save between 50 to 70 percent CO2 equivalents and the time needed to recoup the additional emissions caused by battery production is one to two years. The more you drive, the faster you’ll recoup.” - Auke Hoekstra, director of energy transition research at the Eindhoven University of Technology

A new paper co-written by carbon removal collective Tomorrow’s Air leader Christina Beckmann and sustainable travel leader Intrepid’s climate scientist, Susanne Etti, shares the facts of aviation’s role in climate change, examines how the travel industry and aviation organizations are responding, and reviews key facts for travelers building their knowledge about carbon offsets and removals. For individual travelers grappling with “flight shame” this excerpt from the full paper offers helpful suggestions for planning future flights.

It’s easy to skewer carbon markets as comedian and political commentator John Oliver did recently on his show focused on conventional carbon offsets. While there is much to dispute in Oliver’s treatment of carbon offsets, he does highlight the importance of monitoring, reporting and verification, an important area in development for carbon removal technologies.

In a recent survey of travelers from Australia, Canada, Japan, India, Mexico, U.K., and the United States, people said they plan to travel more with their families in 2022 than they did in 2021. Seventy percent say they plan to take their first international trip with their family since before the pandemic. In this article learn tips from Tomorrow's Air member and family travel expert Samantha Runkel.

Rocks and rain interact to absorb carbon dioxide through a process called rock weathering that also eventually delivers carbon dioxide to the ocean.

The caves of Southeastern Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier offer travelers the chance to experience the inside of a glacier.

A team of researchers from California State University, Monterey Bay; Texas A&M; and San Francisco State University surveyed travelers about their knowledge and thoughts about climate and travel, exploring barriers and opportunities to supporting climate when traveling. 

The latest global climate assessment report published by the U.N.-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change since 2014 came out on February 28, 2022. In this blog, four suggestions for how the concerned global travel community take action on information shared in this report.

Cleaning up carbon dioxide - getting it out of the air - is only half the battle, and not even the hardest part. Once it’s out of the air, where can we put it so that it won’t keep trapping heat in our atmosphere and destabilizing our climate? Carbon dioxide gets stored in plants, soil, the ocean, and can be mineralized in rocks. Getting the full picture on carbon dioxide storage reinforces why a combination of solutions are necessary to restore our climate.

The process of defining an impact measurement system for Tomorrow’s Air helped our team grapple with how to measure the tons carbon dioxide our collective cleans up and the impact of the education we provide to travelers and travel companies, supporting a much-needed transformation in travel. View a short video with Pumla Maswanganyi and Thaksheel Alleck who helped guide our process and read this summary with the details.

Technical terms fly fast and furious when people start talking about climate. The concepts aren't actually all that mysterious, once we define the terms. Read this post for a simple breakdown of two popular terms these days.

As travelers we are frequently encouraged to support climate action projects; this handy list breaks down all the ways carbon dioxide is removed from the air. Learn this list of eight and recognize that we’ll need all of them working together to help restore our climate. 

While some might call for an end to flight, recognize that even this drastic action would not get us out of our current predicament without the help of carbon removal. In this article learn practical tips for how to book your next climate conscious flight.

Climate expert and advisor Eli Mitchell-Larson (due to technical difficulties appearing as Andrew McEvoy) of Oxford University clarifies different types of carbon removal. As helpful for travelers as it is for companies and destinations sorting out their climate strategies, Eli steps us through a single basic chart to help us understand the differences and connection points between carbon removal technologies and natural systems that absorb carbon dioxide.

Recently one of our followers asked, “How does Tomorrow’s Air and Climeworks use the money we contribute?”

Two sustainable travel experts share practical tips for traveling "climate clever" in this engaging presentation.

Especially relevant for travel companies and tourism destinations, Eli Mitchell-Larson of Oxford University elaborates on the "portfolio approach" for climate action, emphasizing carbon removal alongside emissions reductions.

Climate expert Eli Mitchell-Larson from Oxford University and Andrew McEvoy from new tourism destination NEOM discuss the reality of air travel’s contribution to carbon emissions and how to balance forms of transportation when we travel.

At a recent conference gathering together accommodations providers from around the world - the Eco Hotel Restart Summit - Tomorrow’s Air co-creator Christina Beckmann shared a short background on Tomorrow’s Air and its mission, and how the carbon removal technology its members support works.