Keep on traveling
Young people are traveling through Europe every day to gain great experiences such as participating in an intercultural exchange, doing a voluntary or Erasmus year abroad. This is good and fun and we should keep on doing this.
The distance of traveling can be rather far and sitting in a bus for 24 hours isn't ideal and the cheapest way of transport is in many cases by plane.
A negative side effect of it is as we know that planes are rather polluting and contribute to the Greenhouse effect. To compensate these greenhouse gasses there is something very easy that can be done, namely planting trees. Not you personally but there are NGO's that organise that.
All these opportunties of traveling are financed by grants of the European Commission. What Loesje wants to reach is that these compensation cost for the greenhouse gasses will be part of the travel expenses in grant applications. So when you apply for a grant and when you get it that directly money goes to plant trees to compensate the polution that your project will give.
There is agreement inside the EU that we should fight the greenhouse effect and lower the CO2 concentration. In that way this suggestion to the European Commission isn't something controversial but suits perfectly in the existing policies.
As individuals but also as NGO's we have our responsibility, so why not take it when it doesn't take so much effort?