2024 is the third year of partnership between Juneau tourism leader Above and Beyond Alaska (ABAK) and the Alaska Carbon Reduction Fund! 2024 offered a healthy tour season for ABAK, allowing their sustainability-focused adventure offerings to raise carbon-reducing funds from nearly 6000 summer guests.

ABAK’s carbon-cutting impact in 2024 reached eight Juneau lower income families and will continue to assist with an annual elimination of nearly 4000 gallons of carbon-heavy diesel heating oil! Atop the lowered emissions from these homes, heating bill burdens for these families will be reduced by over $1,000 every year that their heat pumps move heat into their homes.

New Partners

2024 brought new Juneau tourism partners to the Alaska Carbon Reduction Fund! Wild Coast Excursions (WCE) had a successful first season of summer business, bringing global guests to select bear-watching areas and alpine hiking hot spots. WCE’s approach to carbon impacts is unique amongst our business partners. WCE has taken a deep dive into their impact numbers with the results allowing them to work with ACRF to make their tourism outings carbon negative. We look forward to watching this business develop and hopefully spread their responsible carbon approach to others in the region.

The newest Juneau tourism business to jump aboard the carbon-reduction train is long time tour leader Gastineau Guiding. With a fleet of speedy whale watching vessels and people movers, Gastineau Guiding shares Juneau’s trails and waters with summer visitors, allowing them to experience both Juneau’s deep green rainforest and the charismatic megafauna that return to Southeast for their summer feeding frenzy. Their first generous contribution to ACRF will reach many families in 2025 and allow ACRF to remove a significant portion of their seasonal carbon output. We can’t say enough about how we welcome their partnership!

ACRF sends a loud shoutout to all of our supporters – subscription supporters who contribute a few carbon-reduction dollars every month, visitor supporters who pay ACRF to balance out impacts from their local excursions, and the local and regional businesses that look to the Fund for its services, its outcomes, and its ability to help them achieve their forward-thinking carbon-reducing sustainability goals.