SAS Group airlines has begun offering customers the ability to offset the carbon-dioxide emissions from every flight they take. "...It is part of the SAS Group's environmental strategy and is a suitable complement to the primary mechanisms in the Kyoto Protocol," says Mats Jansson, President and CEO of SAS…Initially, customers will be able to offset carbon dioxide emissions by choosing to support various sustainable development projects, for example, renewable energy…The option to voluntarily offset carbon dioxide emissions is a transitory solution until 2011 when aviation will be included in the EU Emission Trading Scheme, for which SAS has been a positive advocate…