Travel firm drops offsets as unwanted ‘diversion’ Jan 06, 2010 A ‘socially responsible’ travel agent has become one of the world’s first companies to publicly abandon carbon offsetting, highlighting an increasingly prominent debate as to whether offsetting really makes a contribution to tackling climate change. responsibletravel.com, which takes more than £10million ($16.1m, €11.2m) in holiday bookings every year, has removed the facility for its customers to offset their travel emissions via its website, saying effort needs to be put into actually reducing greenhouse gases. O...