About KlimaLink
By providing emissions data, climate footprints can be displayed for individual travel components and entire trips at the point of sale. This makes it possible to compare arrival and departure by air, bus and train, as well as different types of accommodation, car rental categories and, in the future, local activities. This is an easy way to draw consumers' attention to more climate-friendly options during the booking process and when they are being advised by a travel consultant.
Our emissions platform
What is needed for this?
- Calculation standards that are based on scientific facts and are widely used in the tourism industry;
- Emissions data from service providers (flight, train, bus, car, accommodation, cruise, excursions and activities in the holiday region);
- travel companies that display the calculated climate footprints in their sales channels and thus make them accessible to consumers
- and a one-stop platform that makes all emission data available to users at the moment of enquiry via the booking system.
This one-stop platform will be provided by KlimaLink in 2024, making the required emission data easily accessible to the tourism industry on the basis of a uniform calculation standard.
Foundation of the association
KlimaLink e.V. was founded in October 2022 by the sustainability initiative Futouris e.V. and the german Travel Association DRV. Since day one, our more than 30 member companies (as of November 2024) have been involved in various working groups to establish industry-wide recognised calculation standards and implement them in their booking systems. They all want to ensure that travelling will also be possible for future generations. This can only be achieved by reducing the industry's climate-damaging emissions.
A first, decisive step towards climate neutrality is transparency: by calculating and presenting the emissions caused in a standardised way, we can create the basis for more climate-friendly travel and prioritise this in future upon offering and booking travel components.
We are KlimaLink
The KlimaLink board and management are competently staffed with representatives from a wide range of organisations, associations and companies from the tourism industry. They all have the will and motivation to contribute to more climate protection in the industry and are thus significantly involved in the success of KlimaLink.
Chairwoman of the Board
Swantje Lehners
Deputy Chairman of the Board
Ralf Hieke
Member of the Board
Andreas Ochse
Member of the Board
Laura Steden
Member of the Board
Pascal Zahn
Managing Director
Saskia Sánchez Buitrago
Glasgow Declaration
Keeping global warming below 1.5°C is a global effort and requires the cooperation of all. Governments, science, business, all those working on solutions, as well as civil society, where associations, but also individuals, set a good example and thus give others orientation.
Our common goal is to ensure that the world is a place where future generations can meet their needs and their personal opportunities are not limited. By signing the Glasgow Declaration on Tourism, we are one among those who want to make a contribution. Our emissions data platform shows the expected emissions of travel components and entire trips before they occur. In this way, we support the tourism industry in analyzing the climate footprints of its products and developing plans to significantly reduce them by 2030 and achieve net zero by 2050.
Presented at the point of sale, it enables travelers to make more climate-conscious decisions when planning their vacations. The travel climate footprint empowers each and every one of us to take an active role in implementing an emission-reduced lifestyle.