GBTA Sustainability Toolkit – International Business Travel Association

Why this Toolkit?

Protecting our planet and other people – which implies preventing the disastrous impacts of local weather change – requires collective and pressing efforts.

As enterprise leaders decide to their very own web zero methods, company journey managers are being requested to trace and scale back emissions from enterprise journey.

The activity is daunting. How to gather correct information? How to account for emissions throughout the complete enterprise journey journey? What are credible options to scale back emissions from journey? How can we encourage staff to decide on greener journey choices? And how one can even acknowledge these sustainable journey choices within the first place?

The goal of this toolkit is to information journey managers in their very own sustainability journey and empower them to accomplice with their colleagues, staff, and suppliers to scale back the local weather impression of enterprise journey.

How to Use this Toolkit

GBTA’s toolkit is structured into 12 modules, organized into three elements, all of that are navigable below our GBTA Member Hub. Modules may be learn independently from each other. We suggest that customers undergo them within the proposed order, particularly for journey managers who’re new to the subject of sustainability.

• Part A: A Starter’s Guide – Sustainability in Business Travel
  • Glossary establishes and breaks down the thrill phrases.
  • Part A (Modules 1-3) gives an introduction to sustainability and sustainable journey administration, with a concentrate on local weather motion and emissions discount.
• Part B: Getting the Data Right – Tracking, Offsetting, Reporting
  • Part B (Modules 4-7) dives into sustainability information and how one can monitor, report and offset emissions from enterprise journey.
• Part C: Reducing Emissions – How to Travel Smarter and Better
  • Part C (Modules 8-12) presents all the varied levers on the disposal of journey managers to assist scale back emissions from enterprise journey together with worker’s schooling (on how one can journey higher and smarter) and deciding on greener suppliers (with a deep dive into sustainable transport, lodging and conferences & occasions).”