Lufthansa is adding so-called "green fares," allowing customers to buy carbon offsets.

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Lufthansa Adds “Green Fares” To Ease Carbon Emissions

One airline is hoping travelers will be willing to pay extra money for lower carbon emissions. German carrier Lufthansa, also europe's biggest airline, adding so called green fares, which allows passengers to help fund sustainable aviation fuels or carbon offsets for their upcoming flight. While Lufthansa didn't say, hey, How much this would raise the price, Bloomberg, resorting, reporting that the cost of a London to Germany flight, for example, jumped around 7% when adding these offsets, it comes as flyers are increasingly aware of the harmful environmental impacts of flying, which accounts for some 3% of global emissions.