The European Tour group has launched a new tool that will allow its players to calculate and offset their greenhouse gas emissions when travelling to and from tournaments.
The easy-to-use tool will allow players to input their event-related flight information and then purchase verified carbon credits to offset their calculated GHG emissions. Carbon credits in the tool are all from Gold Standard-accredited projects that support a range of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
The platform, which has been built in-house by the tour’s IT department with support from the GEO Sustainable Golf Foundation, will go live at the start of the 2025 DP World Tour season.
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Rory McIlroy, who has been offsetting his tournament travel-related GHG emissions for the past four years, said: “As golfers we have the opportunity to travel all over the world doing the job we love, but I do have a conscience about the impact that can have on the environment, and that’s why I began taking steps a few years ago to offset my carbon footprint and make my travel neutral. I think we can all play our part in some way or another, and it’s great to see the DP World Tour launching this new tool to help and encourage members to track and offset their travel.”
Maria Grandinetti-Milton, Head of Sustainability at the European Tour Group, said: “We are golf’s global tour, playing 44 tournaments in 24 countries this season. This inevitably creates a large and currently unavoidable travel carbon footprint, and we are doubling down on efforts to help mitigate these emissions. The best way to do this is by investing in Gold Standard-accredited climate projects, which deliver measurable climate and community benefits linked to important principles of global climate justice.”
