Zingbus, India’s largest online bus booking platform, steps onto a sustainability journey by partnering with Sequoia-backed Climate Finance startup, Climes. The travel startup has been offering carbon neutralization as an option to their passengers since May of 2022 across their 500+ cities in 17 states boasting a fleet of 350+ buses. At least 65% of passengers have neutralized their carbon footprints through Climes’ API found on zingbus’ checkout page. Passengers have neutralized more than 500,000 kilos of CO2e by contributing towards forest regeneration and other Nature-based Solutions.
Overall, transportation accounts for a fifth of global emissions of which 15% comes from road transport. While road transport cannot be…