Pascal Husting, Greenpeace International’s programme director, has been flying 250 miles between Luxembourg and Amsterdam at the charity’s expense since 2012. Each trip costs Greenpeace £200 and would generate 142kg of carbon dioxide emissions, according to airline KLM. Scroll down for video . Pascal Husting, Greenpeace International's programme director, has been flying 250 miles between Luxembourg and Amsterdam at the charity's expense since 2012 . Over two years this would amount to 7.4 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions - the equivalent of consuming 17 barrels of oil, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency. But Mr Husting defended the arrangement and said he would rather not take the journey but it was necessary because the alternative is a twelve hour round trip by train. He told the Daily Telegraph: ‘I spend half my life on Skype and video conference calls. ‘But as a senior manager, the people who work in my team sometimes need to meet me in the flesh, that’s why I’ve been going to Amsterdam twice a month while my team was being restructured.’ He said that from September he would switch to making the trip once a month by train due to ‘the work of restructuring my team coming to an end, and with my kids a little older’. Mr Husting’s travel arrangements were revealed just days after Greenpeace was forced to apologise for losing £3million of public donations in an unauthorised currency dealing. The head of Greenpeace in the UK yesterday denied that funding Mr Husting’s commute showed a lack of integrity. John Sauve, head of Greenpeace in the UK, yesterday denied that funding Mr Husting's commute showed a lack of integrity . In a statement online John Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace UK, said: ‘As for Pascal’s air travel. Well it’s a really tough one. Was it the right decision to allow him to use air travel to try to balance his job with the needs of his family for a while? ‘What kind of compromises do you make in your efforts to try to make the world a better place? ‘I think there is a line there. Honesty and integrity to the values that are at the heart of the good you’re trying to do in the world cannot be allowed to slip away. For what it’s worth, I don’t think we’ve crossed that line here at Greenpeace.’ But Greenpeace members were outraged by the senior executive’s commuting habits and called Mr Pascal a ‘hypocrite’. Greenpeace volunteer of 30 years, Richard Lancaster, said: ‘I have to say I’m deeply troubled by these revelations - I had hoped and assumed Greenpeace was better than this. ‘I volunteer with Greenpeace but work in the commercial world and if I took a job in another country I’d expect to move to where the job is and if I couldn’t for family reasons I wouldn’t take the job - so I find Pascal’s travel arrangements almost unbelievable.’ According to Greenpeace flying is ten times worse for climate change than taking the train and is responsible for 13 per cent of the UK’s impact on the climate.
Pascal Husting has been flying at the charity’s expense since 2012 .
Each trip costs £200 and generates 142kg of carbon dioxide emissions .
Mr Husting said the alternative is a twelve hour round trip by train .
Pascal Husting, Greenpeace International’s programme director, has been flying 250 miles between Luxembourg and Amsterdam at the charity’s expense since 2012. Each trip costs Greenpeace £200 and would generate 142kg of carbon dioxide emissions, according to airline KLM. Scroll down for video . Pascal Husting, Greenpeace International's programme director, has been flying 250 miles between Luxembourg and Amsterdam at the charity's expense since 2012 . Over two years this would amount to 7.4 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions - the equivalent of consuming 17 barrels of oil, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency. But Mr Husting defended the arrangement and said he would rather not take the journey but it was necessary because the alternative is a twelve hour round trip by train. He told the Daily Telegraph: ‘I spend half my life on Skype and video conference calls. ‘But as a senior manager, the people who work in my team sometimes need to meet me in the flesh, that’s why I’ve been going to Amsterdam twice a month while my team was being restructured.’ He said that from September he would switch to making the trip once a month by train due to ‘the work of restructuring my team coming to an end, and with my kids a little older’. Mr Husting’s travel arrangements were revealed just days after Greenpeace was forced to apologise for losing £3million of public donations in an unauthorised currency dealing. The head of Greenpeace in the UK yesterday denied that funding Mr Husting’s commute showed a lack of integrity. John Sauve, head of Greenpeace in the UK, yesterday denied that funding Mr Husting's commute showed a lack of integrity . In a statement online John Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace UK, said: ‘As for Pascal’s air travel. Well it’s a really tough one. Was it the right decision to allow him to use air travel to try to balance his job with the needs of his family for a while? ‘What kind of compromises do you make in your efforts to try to make the world a better place? ‘I think there is a line there. Honesty and integrity to the values that are at the heart of the good you’re trying to do in the world cannot be allowed to slip away. For what it’s worth, I don’t think we’ve crossed that line here at Greenpeace.’ But Greenpeace members were outraged by the senior executive’s commuting habits and called Mr Pascal a ‘hypocrite’. Greenpeace volunteer of 30 years, Richard Lancaster, said: ‘I have to say I’m deeply troubled by these revelations - I had hoped and assumed Greenpeace was better than this. ‘I volunteer with Greenpeace but work in the commercial world and if I took a job in another country I’d expect to move to where the job is and if I couldn’t for family reasons I wouldn’t take the job - so I find Pascal’s travel arrangements almost unbelievable.’ According to Greenpeace flying is ten times worse for climate change than taking the train and is responsible for 13 per cent of the UK’s impact on the climate.
Pascal Husting, Greenpeace International’s programme director, has been flying 250 miles expense since 2012. Each trip costs Greenpeace £200 and would generate 142kg of carbon dioxide at the charity's expense since 2012 . Over two the alternative is a twelve hour round trip by