You’ve decided to go abroad for a short or long stay with several stopover cities/countries. Whether you’re flying alone or with your family, every time you take a flight you feel you’re having a negative impact on your environment.

Whether you like her or not, the “little” Greta Thunberg has made a whole generation of “millennials”, and their parents too, aware that a gesture or a trip has an impact on our shared life.

YUPWEGO, a community of committed travelers

We’re committed to creating the insurance the world needs. And to be essential, we want to give meaning to our actions. All our developments are designed to minimize our impact, including that of our members, travelers and globetrotters who aspire to the same values.

We’ve noticed that there are initiatives to reduce our carbon footprint. But we had our doubts about the purpose of some of these structures.

And then we met our friends from the GoodPlanet Foundation (run by Yann Arthus Bertrand) and we don’t doubt for a moment the sincerity and concreteness of their actions.

The GoodPlanet Foundation, recognized as a public utility, aims to place ecology and humanism at the heart of people’s consciences, and to inspire them to take concrete action for the earth and its inhabitants.

We’re perfectly in tune with the values we all stand for. We are aligned in a common purpose that we at YUPWEGO translate as “Make It Count” – Act in such a way that your life brings something to the community whether it is traveling, touring the world, or in daily life.

How can you offset your carbon footprint?

If you would like to offset the carbon footprint of your trip, click here

We agree that the first step is to produce less or not at all.

The principle is to pay the equivalent of one’s carbon output for one trip or one’s annual output. GoodPlanet’s Action Carbone Solidaire supports environmental and solidarity projects (agroecology, sustainable energy, waste recovery, etc.) all over the world through carbon offsetting and donations.

You want to act locally and have a project

If you have a project with a strong environmental impact that helps reduce socio-economic inequalities, you can benefit from the support of the GoodPlanet Foundation.

Submit your application
here

What about you? Do you travel with meaning? What encounters or situations made you decide to take action?

Let us know on our networks.

Read our article on how YUPWEGO works! And if you’d like to take out our YUPWEGO travel insurance, don’t hesitate!

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