{"id":112,"date":"2008-04-16T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/112"},"modified":"2012-07-19T09:25:24","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T09:25:24","slug":"europcar-introduces-carbon-offset-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/112","title":{"rendered":"Europcar Introduces Carbon Offset Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/Europcar.evyy.net\/c\/30237\/32216\/1027?subId1=blog&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.europcar.co.uk%2FEBE%2Fmodule%2Frender%2Fuk-vans\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Europcar<\/a> is introducing a scheme later this year that will allow rental customers to offset the carbon emissions caused by their rental.<\/p>\n<p>The scheme will be voluntary and the rental giant &#8211; who handle more than 10 million rentals each year across Europe &#8211; expect around 5% of customers to opt in. Customers will have to pay for the service, although charges have not yet been announced.<img src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/europcar4vans.gif\" alt=\"Europcar Van Hire UK\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Europcar Group&#8217;s chief executive officer, Salvatore Catania, said that the scheme &#8220;will be rolled out to all countries&#8221; and &#8220;is not a marketing tool, it is part of a 10 year commitment we have shown to the environment.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europcar is introducing a scheme later this year that will allow rental customers to offset the carbon emissions caused by their rental.<\/p>\n<p>The scheme will be voluntary and the rental giant &#8211; who handle more than 10 million rentals each year across Europe &#8211; expect around 5% of customers to opt in. Customers will have to pay for the service, although charges have not yet been announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[202,201,28,63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1895,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/1895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}